Is There a Surgery for a Split Earlobe? Doctor Answers, Tips

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Earlobe surgery to repair split earlobes

Split earlobes can definitely be treated surgically. Many people develop split earlobes or stretched holes in their ears from wearing heavy earrings.The area of concern can be excised and the skin edges can be sutured together leaving you with a new intact earlobe that you can pierce again if you desire. The resulting scar is barely perceptible and patients are back to wearing earrings 6 weeks after the procedure. A similar procedure can be performed if the earlobes are too large. As... more

Sarmela Sunder, MD
Beverly Hills Facial Plastic Surgeon

www.sunderplasticsurgery.com

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Split or Torn Earlobe Repair

Surgery on a split or torn earlobe is very common. This can be to repair large holes in the ear lobe from earrings. It can also be to reduce the size of an excessively large ear lobe. Both of these procedures can be performed in the office with minimal recovery time and the ability to return to work within a few days.

Kristin Egan, MD
Manhattan Beach Facial Plastic Surgeon

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Fixing split earlobes

Fixing partially or completely split earlobes is a minor procedure that can be done with local anesthesia. You can re-pierce the earlobes again, but we ask patients to wait a full three months before doing so.

Mark Preston, MD
Columbus Plastic Surgeon

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Split Earlobe Repair and Correction

Split earlobes, torn earlobes, and earlobe piercings and gauging can be easily repaired with a simple office procedure under local anesthesia. It is an outpatient procedure and you can return to most jobs the next day. Sutures are usually removed in 5-7 days. From El Paso, Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Frank Agullo, MD
El Paso Plastic Surgeon

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Surgery for a Split Earlobe...

Split or torn earlobes are usually caused from earrings that are too heavy for their individual earlobes. The surgery is a fairly common procedure that is quick and nearly painless. It is performed in the office under local anesthesia. The stitches come out in six days and in six weeks it is safe to get your ears re-pierced. Be sure to consult with a Board Certified Facial Plastic or Plastic Surgeon if you are interested in getting this procedure done. more

Andrew Miller, MD
Edison Facial Plastic Surgeon

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Fixing earlobe tears and split earlobes with plastic surgery

Earlobe surgery is quick and effective in treating split earlobes and earlobe tears. i perform these surgeries routinely in my Los Angeles plastic surgery practice. Recovery is relatively quick with minimal scars.

Raffy Karamanoukian, MD
Los Angeles Plastic Surgeon

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Split earlobe surgery

Split earlobes are often caused by a earrings that slowly enlarge the earlobe hole in a vertical fashion until eventually the earlobe splits. As the hole enlarges, new skin forms. That is why you don't have a sore as this process happens. The treatment is to recreate a new raw surface and then sewing the split back together. This can be done in the office setting using local. Good Luck

Young R. Cho, MD, PhD
Houston Plastic Surgeon

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Split Earlobe Surgery?

Thank you for the question. “Split” earlobes can be easily reconstructed under local anesthesia with minimal risk and recovery time. It is important to re-approximate the curved earlobe precisely to avoid step off or other visible deformity. I would suggest a consultation with a board-certified plastic surgeon. Best wishes.

Tom J. Pousti, MD
San Diego Plastic Surgeon

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Split earlobe

Split earlobes are usually caused by earrings pulling through either as a result of trauma or from gradual tearing from heavy earrings or repeat infections. This can be repaired under local anesthesia in the office in a short and simple procedure. The ear can be repierced six to eight weeks later.

Robert L. Kraft, MD
New York Plastic Surgeon

www.foresthillsplasticsurgery.com

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Easily repaired with new tract for earing in one step.

Your split or partially split earlobe can be repaired, with a flap from the edge used to re-line a tract for the earing at the same time. Great results

Rodney A. Green, MD
Cleveland Plastic Surgeon

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Split or torn earlobes

Split or torn earlobes are very easy to fix. This type of procedure can generally be done under local anesthesia in an office setting and takes less than thirty minutes to do. The earlobes can then be re-pierced at a later date when the scar tissue has healed adequately.

Edwin C. Pound, III, MD
Atlanta Plastic Surgeon

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Simple split earlobes can be repaired by simple surgical procedure.

Careful excision of the slit and suturing of the defect can successfully repair your earlobes. I have repaired many earlobes and patients are very pleased with the results. This is a simple in-office surgery that takes about 15 minutes per earlobe.

Mark Taylor, MD
Salt Lake City Dermatologic Surgeon

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Split earlobe repair

Repairing a split earlobe is a very simple procedure that can be performed under local anesthesia. Basically a small sliver of skin on the inner side of the split is removed and then the edges are sutured together. The end result is usually barely noticeable.

Alison Stallings, MD
Tarrytown Dermatologic Surgeon

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Split earlobe from piercing

Yes split or clefted earlobes, usually caused by wearing heavier earrings, can easily be corrected with a minor surgical procedure. This is done under local anesthesia and take less than 30 minutes.

Vincent D. Lepore, MD
San Jose Plastic Surgeon

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Split earlobe

A split earlobe can be easily repaired in the office under local anesthesia. If it is an old tear, the edges of the split are freshened and sewn back together. Typically, the earlobe can be repierced at 6-8 weeks after repair.

Etai Funk, MD
Houston Facial Plastic Surgeon

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Split ear lobe

Torn ear lobes are repaired easily and quickly in an office setting using local anesthesia. You should be able to find a plastic surgeon to do this for you. Make sure your surgeon is certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery. Samer W. Cabbabe, M.D. Board - Certified Plastic Surgeon Saint Louis Plastic Surgery Consultants

Samer W. Cabbabe, MD
Saint Louis Plastic Surgeon

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Torn earlobe repair is straightforward and rewarding

Torn earlobes repair is generally very straightforward and rewarding. Performed under local anesthesia alone, earlobe repair generally requires 10-45 min and heals painlessly. I generally pierce my patients' ears 4-6 weeks later, and consider torn earlobe repair a very high satisfaction procedure.

Laxmeesh Mike Nayak, MD
Saint Louis Facial Plastic Surgeon

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Split earlobe

Yes, there is surgery to repair torn or split earlobes. It usually is quite straightforward and can be done under local.

Steven Wallach, MD
Manhattan Plastic Surgeon

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Repair of Split Earlobes

I have published a technique, which I perform regularly, which repairs the torn earlobe and restores the hole to its original site, without the need for repiercing. This has the benefit of keeping the hole symmetrical with the other side. I use a double flap technique, which reinforces the repair to reduce the risk of the split recurring, although I do ask my patients not to wear large, heavy earrings. Before and after photos are available on my website at... more

Jonathan J Staiano, MBBS
Birmingham Plastic Surgeon

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Ear lobe repair is extremely common

Ear lobe repair is a relatively simple procedure that is performed under local anesthesia in the office setting. Split ear lobes are extremely common.

Babak Azizzadeh, MD
Beverly Hills Facial Plastic Surgeon

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Yes, surgical repair of split earlobe is possible and affordable.

This is a straight-forward, quick, local-anesthetic operation performed by virtually all plastic surgeons. We charge $550 total for in-office operating room repair of one torn earlobe ($912 for both sides). Sutures are removed in one week, and we provide complimentary re-piercing no sooner than 6 weeks after healing (your own earrings will be used). Best results are obtained with a two-layer repair and extremely fine everting sutures to minimize visible scarring and indentation of... more

Richard H. Tholen, MD, FACS
Minneapolis Plastic Surgeon

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There is a way to repair a split earlobe

The split earlobe problem you describe is pretty common. It can be repaired as an office-based procedure using a straightforward injection of numbing medicine for anesthesia. The earlobe can be re-pierced after 2 months or so. I prefer to irregularize (W-plasty) the resulting scar to help camoflauge it. It's also important to prevent notching of the outer margin of the earlob repair as well.

Thomas A Lamperti, MD
Seattle Facial Plastic Surgeon

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simple procedure

Yes for sure ,a simple procedure done under local anesthesia to close the big opening.and when every things healed you can have your ear pierced again

Nawarah Alarfaj, MD
Saudi Arabia Plastic Surgeon

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Split Ear Lobe Repair

Hello, yes there is treatment to correct split, elongated or deformed ear lobes. Correction of a simple split ear lobe can be accomplished in the office under local anesthesia. The procedure takes less than an hour with little or no downtime after the procedure. You will follow up at seven days after the procedure for removal of stitches. The ear lobe can be repierced in 3 months. Good Luck......Dr. Corrado

Anthony Corrado, DO
Philadelphia Facial Plastic Surgeon

www.dranthonycorrado.com

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Torn earlobes can be repaired

A deformed ear lobe can be the cause of significant stress. The most common cause is the torn lobe from an acute injury where a large ear ring is mistaken for a "handle" by a baby. The other is the more chronic injury over time, where the lobe becomes torn from heavy ear lobe jewelery or becomes deformed from large, circular jewelery inside the lobe. Each type of injury creates a different shape to the lobe and the good news is that the lobe can be repaired or reconstructed to... more

Charles K. Lee, MD
San Francisco Plastic Surgeon

www.lplasticsurgery.com

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Ear lobe tear surgery is simple

There is a very simple and straightforward surgery to correct split earlobes. This can be done with local anesthetic and takes about 10-15 minutes. In my experience, patients are uniformly happy with the outcomes. Oftentimes medical insurance will pay for the procedure.

York Jay Yates, MD
Salt Lake City Plastic Surgeon

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Earlobe surgery

Earlobe surgery is quite common. Most commonly it happens due to excessive pull on the earings. If you call your plastic surgeon as it happens, the repair may be covered by insurance. If you wait and allow it to heal, in our experience, insurance companies will consider it cosmetic. In most cases, the procedure involves removing the edges of the split and repair with Z plasty or W plasty to avoid postoperative "cleft", or indentation. There isvery... more

Boris Volshteyn, MD, MS
Reno Plastic Surgeon

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Reapair of Torn Earlobes

There are many complex challenges in facial cosmetic and reconstructive surgery, but this is not one of them. My approach is to excise the entire tract and repair it in an interrupted fashion known as a running w-plasty. This helps to make the scar less conspicuous and prevent a dimple at the base of the earlobe. Re-piercing is performed 6 weeks later.

Stephen Prendiville, MD
Fort Myers Facial Plastic Surgeon

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Quick Fix for Torn or Split Earlobes

Through the years, a number of different procedures have been proposed for repairing a torn earlobe. For more than two decades I have used a technique that I have found gives good results and can be performed in under fifteen minutes. After numbing the lobe with a small amount of local anesthesia, the inner walls on both sides of the tear are lightly abraded until they are raw. Then they are stitched together with dissolving sutures to reform the lobe. Once the wound is completely healed,... more

Nelson L. Novick, MD
New York Dermatologic Surgeon

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surgery techniques to close, repair and reshape split earlobes

Surgery techniiques to repair split earlobes generally include the following: 1 excise and cut out the healed edges of the split 2 evaluate the shape if the ear lobe with the lobe split closed 3 remove additional ear lobe tissue to tailor and improve the earlobe shape, and to match the other earlobe 4 repair the split with a layered closure

Fredrick A. Valauri, MD
New York Plastic Surgeon

www.drvalauri.com

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Split earlobe

This procedure is quit common and easily done in the office under local anesthesia. Repairing the split will reduce the size of the earlobe a little but rairly would this be a problem.

Walter D. Gracia, MD
Arlington Plastic Surgeon

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Split Ear Lobes CAN be Readily Repaired

Regarding: "Is There a Surgery for a Split Earlobe? My Ears Are Perfect Except my EARLOBES One of Them Has a Slice Going Down the Middle Which Causes It to Seperate. is there a surgery for this??" Split Ear Lobe Repair is a commonly done operations done by the vast majority of plastic surgeons. It is done as a relatively short office procedure whose only down-side is the inability to pierce and wear earrings for a few months while the ear is healing. Dr. Peter Aldea more

Peter A. Aldea, MD
Memphis Plastic Surgeon

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Split ear lobule repair

Absolutelty, the surgery is called a bifid or cleft ear lobule repair and is easily performed as an office procedure under local anesthesia.

Otto Joseph Placik, MD
Chicago Plastic Surgeon

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