I was told by my vet that procedure would be similar to AC1’s experience. Expensive and painful to really resolve the ear plaques. I decided it wasn’t worth it. I have seen many fancy show horses in HJ land that had them. If they could have been resolved, they would have.
Lol wow I have no recollection of starting this thread and forgot the horse in question even had plaques. They never ended up bothering him much. Sadly I lost him two years ago to DSLD. 
My apologies, this thread must have popped up on my ‘suggested threads’ since I looked at the other active thread on ear plaques. I didn’t notice this one was old, assumed it was active. Guess I’m still learning the new COTH format.
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My guy has them them too and I’m pretty diligent with facemasks with ears and fly repellent as well.
When I was a kid someone told me the tiny one on my pony was probably a fungus. Eventually it got loose and I picked it off. She was not really bothered, but it looked just like the ones in the pics I just googled. Maybe some of them are fungal?
Later, my TB had a small one as well. Again, it got kind of loose, and I picked it off. Neither one ever came back. I think on the TB I might have put some ointment on it. His immune system was weird though- he had cannon crud, EOTRH, cellulitis, Pedal Osteitis, etc. There weren’t any parts on that horse without a condition when he died.
My TB has aural plaques, not too serious so I don’t worry about them. He is a little sensitive about pulling the bridle over his left ear but that I attribute to his abusive handling by the “trainer” I sent him to. He actually likes for me to stroke the inside of his ears so I know they aren’t bothering him and I haven’t seen them growing either.
