Earlobe Repair – Patient 196

A woman in her mid 50’s who has had a double cleft/ double tear of her left earlobe for 30 years. She thought this may be from wearing heavy earrings but has no tears on her right side which has been pierced in 3 places. The clefts were too close together to be repaired separately with individual incisions and maintain the blood supply to the central piece. But she has enough extra earlobe that a wedge was marked in a similar fashion to an ear lobe lift and was excised in the office under local and repaired in layers. She is seen again 3 months after repair and just after re-piercing the earlobe for her in the office.