Ear cartilage looks deformed to me. How normal are my results? (Photo)

As I read your narrative, I was thinking that perhaps a permanent suture could be causing you discomfort. When suture otoplasty is performed, we typically place six sutures behind somebody's ear. If you have pinpoint pain over one of the sutures that has not extruded, depending on your...

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...

With the assistance of a board certified plastic surgeon experienced in cosmetic ear surgery, your Darwin’s Tubercle can be removed and symmetry can be improved.

There are a variety of things that could be done to your earlobes to make them look better. I suggest if they bother you a lot that you discuss your options with the surgeon.

It is hard to tell the if there has been any change or not as the lighting is different between the 2 photos and alignment. Both these can make the ear look more prominent. A before any surgery photo would have been helpful. It can be seen that the before photo shows no shadow in the scapha of...

There is data that shows a higher chance of relapse with dissolvable sutures. Some surgeons use dissolvable sutures to avoid the small chance of the permanent sutures spitting through the skin. I use mostly permanent sutures in my practice to reduce the chance of the ears popping back out with time.