My ear lobes are too thick to wear normal pierced earrings. It's difficult to find them with longer backs. Am I a candidate?

Earlobe repair is a common procedure in our plastic surgery office. I employ a technique that involves removing the excess scar tissue and reapproximating the tissue planes in multiple layers to recontour the earlobe after gauges, torn earlobes, or stretched out earlobes. Sometimes, the same...

You are not alone.  I have seen many patients who, for the same reasons you describe, wish to have gauged ear lobes repaired.  It is a great procedure that can restore the ear lobe to a “normal” appearance".  Care must be taken during this procedure to avoid reducing the size of the ear and/or ...

Earlobe repair is a common procedure in our plastic surgery office. I employ a technique that involves removing the excess scar tissue and reapproximating the tissue planes in multiple layers to recontour the earlobe after gauges, torn earlobes, or stretched out earlobes. Sometimes, the same...

Earlobe repair is a common procedure in our plastic surgery office. I employ a technique that involves removing the excess scar tissue and reapproximating the tissue planes in multiple layers to recontour the earlobe after gauges, torn earlobes, or stretched out earlobes. Sometimes, the same...

The earlobe will heal quickly (in just a few days), but the two sides of the lobe will not reattach to each other.  A torn earlobe needs to be surgically repaired.  An earlobe repair is minor, healing time is minimal, and downtime is almost non-existent.  A facial plastic surgeon can perform thi...

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...