T4R And for what purpose, too? I got a little over 10 of them and will get another one later this year I hope. Basically it's a reconstruction of my ear as it never developed because a car crash moved me while in the womb. This years surgery will be a hearing aid planted in my skull so I can finally hear the world from both ears! Medicine has improved so much.. I'm surprised none of you had appendicitis, I was expecting that to be uncommon.