A 6-year-old Hopi boy born without a left ear will undergo surgery next week in New York.
Edmund Nequatewa Hobbs suffers from microtia, a birth defect affecting one in 5,000 children.
He cannot hear out of his left side because his ear canal is unformed.
Doctors will reconstruct an entirely new ear for Hobbs. They say he should have full hearing.
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(The New York Daily News 1/13)
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Hopi boy suffering birth defect to undergo surgery
Tuesday, January 13, 2004
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