In keeping with my longstanding interest in the surgical corrrection of
external ear deformities, I have followed Jack Davis' contributions to
this challenging type of reconstructive and aesthetic plastic surgery
since I read his first article in 1951. As a longtime good friend of
Jack in our roles as editors of the journal, Aesthetic Plastic Surgery,
and as past presidents of the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic
Surgery (ISAPS), I have kept up- to-date in reading his numerous
accomplishments in external ear surgery for these past 46 years. The
reader might find it reassuring to learn that in this period of 4t
decades, Jack Davis has contributed to our specialty 42 separate
articles, lec- tures, discussions, chapters, and other items describing
external ear surgery. In 1978 in our journal, Aesthetic Plastic Surgery,
he presented an excellent re- view article on "History of the Aesthetic
Surgery of the Ear," which was co- authored with the assistance of
Horacio H. Hernandez. This same subject was also presented in 1985 in a
chapter in an ISAPS book devoted to the 'The Creation of Aesthetic
Plastic Surgery." Even more importantly, and historically, Davis gave us
his opus magnum publication in 1987, Aesthetic and Reconstructive
Otoplasty, which covered almost every conceivable aspect of these types
of surgery in its 581 pages.