Trump Surgery Bill: How Bandage-Wearing Ex-Prez Is Facing $10K Plastic Surgery Op to Fix Ear Blasted in Botched Assassination
Trump spoke at the Association of Black Journalists just weeks after a bullet grazed his ear in an attempted assassination.
July 17 2024, Published 11:39 a.m. ET
Donald Trump may have to cough up some serious cash if he wants to fix the ear that was blown off by an assassin’s bullet.
After the shocking attempt on his life at a Pennsylvania campaign rally, the former president wrote on Truth Social: “I was shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear. I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin.”
Since the attack, Trump has kept his right ear covered up by a bandage. And if he wants it back to normal, RadarOnline.com can reveal, he’ll need to pay up to $10,000 for a complex reconstructive surgery.
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Dr. Dennis Dass, a board-certified plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills, California who has repaired hundreds of ears mangled by cancer treatment and piercings gone wrong, told the Daily Mail: “An ear reconstruction is typically a complex procedure depending on the size and location of the defect. But the upper third of the ear, that is actually one of the easier areas to reconstruct.”
Trump would likely need to undergo helical advancement flap surgery. During the procedure, which can take two hours to complete and is usually done under local anesthetic, surgeons remove any damaged area and scar tissue, make an incision along the inside rim of the ear to loosen the skin, ‘rotate’ neighboring healthy cartilage and skin over the wound to restore the shape, and stitch it up. The stitches are removed after about a week, and the ear is usually fully recovered within six week, leaving only a ‘small mark.’
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Dass added: “I am hoping for his sake that it is a rather small injury and the reconstruction can be pretty simple. It is a very unfortunate situation that he has been in, and it was simply horrifying. I wish President Trump well, and hopefully we can get a beautiful cosmetic result for his ear.”
If the damage is more extensive, he could could need more invasive surgeries like a wedge closure surgery, in which a triangle is cut out of the ear before it is sutured together, or local skin flap surgery, where the skin around the ear is loosened and shifted to cover the damaged area.
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Trump's camp has not revealed the extent of the damage or if he intends to undergo any cosmetic surgeries — but the presidential candidate, with his infamous combover and fake tan, is notoriously vain.
In 2020, longtime Fox News commentator Brit Hume said: “Think of what he goes through every day to prepare himself to be seen. He goes through this whole ritual with his hair where he sprays it into submission and he's got it all combed up in a certain way so that it covers his forehead. He's obviously very, very concerned about his appearance. A lot of people don't think he has very good taste but this is the way he wants to look, and he cares a lot about it and doesn't like to look any other way.”
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