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When you remove the stud, if the piercing hole is not unsightly and large, it may be best to leave it alone and consider re-piercing your earlobe in a more favorable position. I hope this helps! Sincerely, Dr Joseph
If the piercing recently pulled through then the skin should gradually repigment over several weeks to months. If this is a long standing scar then it can be excised under local anesthesia and the skin edges brought together very gently with stitches and there should be a minimally perceptible scar left.
The correction of your split tragus would be very much like the split of somebody’s earlobe. Under local anesthesia, the small split edges would be removed, and then the tragus put back together again. This should easily be accomplished, and any plastic surgeon should be able to handle this. B...
Based on your photos, your left ear appears to protrude from your head more than your right. You also appear to have relatively good architecture of your antihilical folds. You might benefit from a left otoplasty surgery with conchal setback sutures. Unfortunately, simply removing skin will not...
Hello, hope you are well. Thank you for posting your photos and question. Based on the photos, your results are good. The ears appear generally symmetric, although I'm sure some finite discrepancy exists. If you were here in my office, I would take measurements, but my guess would be that the...
Our office repairs earlobes after a traumatic tear of earrings, gauge piercings, or after a facelift in which the earlobes are stretched. Earlobe surgery is composed of several techniques that can either repair torn earlobes (split earlobes) or correct overly redundant earlobe tissue from...
I believe this may be corrected by exploring your ear and releasing the sutures to get a more relaxed and original shape to your ear. Then, sutures would have to be replaced in a more favorable orientation. Please consider getting a second opinion. Wishing you well moving forward. Sincerely, Dr....
Prominent ears are caused by cartilage that is too large and sections of the cartilage, which have not folded correctly. An otoplasty procedure allows the cartilage to be set backward toward your scalp, to reduce its prominence, as well as to fold the cartilage with sutures so that the contours...
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