Earless boy gets one made from his own ribs

London: A 9-year-old born with a rare condition has had a new pair created from his own ribs, so that he could make his dream come true of wearing sunglasses.

Kieran Sorkin underwent a six-hour operation at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) in 2014, where surgeons used cartilage from his ribs to create a pair of ears and grafted them to his head, the Mirror reported.

Lead surgeon Neil Bulstrode said that the ears had now healed sufficiently for Kieran to sport sunglasses just in time for summer.

Bulstrode used an outline of his mother, Louise Sorkin's, own ears as a "family template" to make them as close as possible to the shape that the youngster might otherwise have had.