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'I could never hear on my left side - until I got a prosthetic ear'

BBC News Health · 14 October 2026 at 00:00

'I could never hear on my left side - until I got a prosthetic ear'

Stephen Gilbert, 74, was born with unilateral microtia, a rare condition in which the external ear is underdeveloped or missing on one side.

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'I could never hear on my left side - until I got a prosthetic ear'

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