Earlobe Repair – Patient 166

A woman in her late 20’s who has a complete cleft of her left earlohe that finished tearing while she was running a marathon.  Her right earlobe piercing has started to stretch and she would like to have both repaired.  She is shown before and again, 3 months after a bilateral cleft earlobe repair, and again, just after re-piercing.  In order to decrease the chance of this happening again I have advised that she start to remove her earrings at night while sleeping, once the new piercings have healed in 3-4 weeks.  I think that the earring posts will lever back and forth across the earlobe when a patient is sleeping and it is pressed against the pillow, slowly cutting through the earlobe like a wire cutting through a piece of cheese.