68 Year Old Female Treated With Ear Lobe Surgery Picture By Dr Hall, Stoneham, Massachusetts
A woman in her early 70’s with a cleft of her right ear where her earrings tore through and age related drooping of both ears. She is shown before and again, 3 months after a bilateral earlobe lift incorporating a repair of her cleft. With a lift, the earlobe is swung back and forth across an imaginary midpoint to precisely mark a wedge of excess earlobe to be excised, “lifting” the earlobe. She is thrilled with the more useful. Her earlobe tear was most likely from sleeping with her earrings in. After re-piercing she will wear a Bandaid at night for the first 3-4 weeks and then get in the habit of removing the earrings when sleeping. Most patients tend to sleep more on one side than the other, and the earring post gets pushed back and forth catching on the pillow an can slowly cut through the earlobe like a wire cutting through cheese. (Nov 4, 2019)