Facial Plastic Surgeon.
Double Board Certified.
Fellowship Trained.
Overly large or protruding ears are an eye-catching feature in all the wrong ways. They immediately draw attention away from your smile and other classically attractive facial features. Children with conspicuous ears might face teasing and bullying on the playground. These experiences can permanently damage confidence, leading to a more withdrawn and self-conscious personality later…
Popular in modern culture, stretched earlobes are typically created by inserting increasingly large piercings into the earlobe. As followers of this particular trend get older or seek to enter employment in a particular section, some may decide to permanently remove piercings. Unfortunately, piercings or not, the earlobe can remain stretched. If gauged earlobes are creating…
Pixie ear is a condition in which the earlobe is attached to the cheek and doesn’t have a split or notch at the earlobe-cheek junction. This shape can be a feature that you’ve always had. For others, it’s a condition that has occurred after a facelift. Some inexperienced surgeons pull the skin too tightly during…
Large or stretched earlobes can be unappealing and affect the way you feel about yourself. This condition is most commonly noticed in older people who have become victim to sagging and stretching skin. However, having large earlobes is also a genetic factor that you can be born with. If you’re embarrassed about the appearance of…
Are you done with the lobe gauging fad of wearing oversized hoops on the inside your earlobes? Are you disturbed now by the way your ears look? The jewelry we wear is an expression of ourselves, but heavy and large metal earrings can cause stretching, tearing, splitting, and scarring of the earlobe. Fortunately, Kalos…
Your ears: though they provide the soundtrack to your life, you probably don’t think about them except when you run a q-tip around the outside after your shower or put your earrings in. But if your ears stick out from your head or have “lop ear” deformity, you might think about them a lot more…
Otoplasty, also known as ear reduction surgery, is defined as the correction of protruding or prominent ears. Children and adults are both candidates for otoplasty to correct birth defects, injuries, and ears that are overly large or extrude from the sides of the head. While many females are able to hide their ears by covering…
It is often a big fear of mothers, grandparents, preschool teachers and anyone else who spends time around small children: having an earring ripped through the earlobe. The earlobe can also become torn as a result of wearing heavy earrings because over time the weight of the earring can loosen the earring hole until it…
Earlobe repair surgery can be a great fix for elongated or damaged ear lobes. Some patients have naturally elongated lobes while others suffer damage to the earlobes from earrings or other trauma. As well, some patients may suffer from keloid scars on the earlobes, sometimes a result after ear piercing. No matter which condition a…
We get numerous calls from both men and women who have stretched or torn earlobes they want to have repaired. Earlobe repair is typically performed on patients to fix the damage and stretching that wearing heavy earrings has created or from a trauma to the earlobe. Someone who has a piercing that’s close to the…
