Cleft Earlobe/Earlobe Lift Gallery

A woman in her mid 50’s with a partial split of her right ear and drooping of both earlobes.  She is shown before and again, 3 months after bilateral earlobe lift combined with correction of the split.  Scars are typically redder and thicker for 6 weeks and then soften and fade over the next 2 years or more.  At 3 months they are ready to re-pierce but will continue to fade.

A woman in her early 30’s with a partial split of her left earlobe, and also a drooping appearance of her earlobes.  She does have obstructive sleep apnea and wears a cpap machine at night and does sleep with her earrings in place.  She has an attached to free border length of  15 mm on her left and 16 mm on her right.  The most attractive distance in studies is 5 to at most 10 mm.  She is shown before , with markings, and again, 4 months after bilateral earlobe repair.  She wore bandaids at night to prevent excess pressure on her earlobes from her cpap machine.  Scars typically beome thicker and redder for 6 weeks and then fade and improve over the next 2 years.  She is thrilled with the more youthful contour of her earlobes after surgery.

A woman in her mid 40’s with partial split drooping of her left earlobe.  She did sleep with her earrings in place.  She is shown before and again, 5 months after earlobe lift/repair in the office and again, immediately after repiercing in the office.

A woman in her early 40’s with a partial split of her left ear lobe and dropping of both earlobes.  She is shown before and again, 3 months after a bilateral earlobe lift/split repair.

The earlobes now have a more youthful and beautiful shape.

A woman in her late 20’s with a partial split of her earlobes.  She is shown before and again, 6 months after repair and immediately after re-piercing in the office.  She did sleep with earrings in.  When both earlobes are involved there is often a nickel allergy as well.

A woman in her mid 40’s with parital split of her left ear as well as drooping of her earlobe.  She does sleep with earrings in place and has a nickel allergy.  She is shown before and again, 3 months after earlobe lift/repair in the office.  The split was corrected and a more aesthetic contour created.

A woman in her early 30’s with a complete split of her left earlobe.  She does sleep with her earrings in.  She also has dropping of both earlobes with a length of 12 mm on her left from the cheek attachment to the free border ( an ideal youthful earlobe is 5 mm).  She elected only for repair of the split on the one side and didn’t wish to have a bilateral earlobe lift at this time.

She is shown before and again, 3 months after repair. The contour is good and the spit is repaired.  The earlobe aesthetics could be improved with an earlobe lift should she desire this in the future.

A woman in her early 30’s with bilateral splits of her earlobes, most likely from sleeping with her earrings in place.  There is slight drooping of the earlobes as well.  She is shown before and again, 3 months after bilateral earlobe lift/repair.

A woman of color in her late 40’s with a complete split of her right earlobe which she attributes to sleeping with her earrings in.  She is shown before and again, 3 months after repair.