article_snippet: A single mum is desperately saving every cent to fly to the U.S.
   for A single mum three-year-old daughter's ear to be reconstructed so A single mum doesn't get bullied about the birth defect when A single mum starts school.
article_snippet: The condition, that affects about one baby in every 8,000-10,000 births, is treated differently in Australia with medical professionals using rib cartilage from the 10 year-old patient to recreate the ear, which takes six months to recreate.
article_snippet: However in America, the surgical technique uses a synthetic framework and the body’s own tissue to create an ear during the eight-hour operation, meaing there are no age restrictions. '
article_snippet: no age restrictions will use her daughter good ear as a template and make her good ear out of synthetic material but make her good ear a bit bigger because ears only grow a little bit so when her daughter grows up no age restrictions will be even and no age restrictions use her daughter membrane skin to cover her membrane skin,' Tanya explained.
article_snippet: The condition, Microtia, affects about one baby in every 8,000-10,000 births .