Cleft Earlobe/Earlobe Lift Gallery

A woman in her mid 20’s who has had problems with a left torn earlobe. She started having problems with developing small tears which eventually tore through while in college and had had this repaired 4 years ago. She did well for about a year but then it tore again. It is good to fix a problem but even better to prevent a problem. The issue here: probably from wearing earrings while sleeping. This seems to be more of a problem in my patients with relatively short ear lobes as we have here. My theory is that the earring post levers back and forth on the pillow and against the ear cartilage and cuts through the earlobe like a wire cutting through a block of cheese. She is shown before and again, 15 months after repair by us in the office. We have re-pierced her ear for her in the office. After cleansing with hydrogen peroxide 2-3 times a day for the next 3-4 weeks she will start to remove the earrings while sleeping.

A man in his late 30’s who felt that his gauges no longer represented the image of himself that he wanted to present to the world. He is shown before an 8 weeks after correction of his gauges in the office under local anesthesia. Although scars are typically at their reddest and thickest at 6 weeks and then begin to settle over the next year, he is already thrilled with the normal appearance of his ears.

A woman in her early 40’s who is bothered by the stretching of her earlobe and earlobe piercing. Her earrings “hang funny” and the earlobes appear droopy. She is shown before and again, 3 months after a bilateral earlobe lift. A wedge is carefully marked by swinging the earlobe back and forth past an imaginary point. This corrects the drooping of the earlobe. She was so happy when we re-pierced her ears in the office that she said that she felt like she was in 7th grade again and getting her ears pierced for the first time!

A man in his mid 40’s with a deformity of his left ear lobe. He had had chronic infection of a cyst of his left ear 2 years before which had drained on its own, but left him with an unusual prominence of his earlobe. He had thickening of the lobe without a true residual cyst. He is shown before and again, 7 months after correction in the office with a wedge resection of the ear. Although scars will typically continue to fade and improve for 2 years or longer, he is already thrilled with the correction of his ear lobe which now appears normal.

An 11 year-old girl with a torn right earlobe from 2 years earlier. She is shown just before and again, 3 months after repair in the office under local anesthesia.

A woman in her late 60’s who has a cleft of her right ear. She is shown before and again, 3 months after repair in the office.

A woman in her late 30’s who is bothered by a cleft earlobe on one side, probably from wearing her earrings while sleeping. She is shown before and again, 4 months after repair.

A woman in her mid 20’s with a partial tear of her earlobe who wanted to have this repaired before her upcoming wedding. She is shown before and again, 3 months after repair in the office. The cause of her tear is thought to be wearing her earrings while sleeping, so after she heals from the repiercing of her ears she will start to remove her earrings at bedtime.

A woman in her late 70’s who is bothered by drooping of her earlobes. She has had a facelift in her 40’s and again in her 50 ‘s done elsewhere and was happy with the results but always felt that her earrings “hung funny” when they were in her ears, and noticed this to have gotten progressively worse over the years.
An ear lobe lift is performed by swinging the ear lobe back and forth pass an imaginary point to mark a wedge for excision. This wedge is excised and the earlobes are repaired. This removes the excess earlobe from aging and “lifts” the earlobe by restoring it to a more youthful contour. She is shown just before correction under local anesthesia in the office, and again, 3 months after surgery when she returned for re-piercing.

A woman in her late 30’s with a tear of her left earlobe. She is shown before and again, 3 months after repair in the office, just before re-piercing.