Women LOVE their earrings! I see women all the time wearing elaborate earrings and I can’t help but notice sometimes how much it weighs down the earlobes. The pull of gravity over the years of wearing trendy statement earrings can stretch out earlobes, making them look old and deflated. For some of my patients, women miss wearing the earrings they’ve purchased or received as mementos or gifts because they have become self-conscious of their saggy, long earlobes. The main issue is that the skin envelope loses volume over time(like everything else around our face). This is unfortunately compounded by the […]
Ear Surgery or, Otoplasty, is performed to improve the appearance of the ears when they are overly prominent or stick out from the sides of the head. Children with overly prominent ears are often made the target teasing by their peers and this teasing can damage their self-esteem well into adulthood. Children typically as young as 6 and up are eligible for ear surgery and it is often recommended that the procedure be performed early on as the cartilage is more malleable. That said, teens and adults can also benefit from the procedure.
The potentially dramatic results obtained from this relatively minor surgery, […]
Many people don’t pay much attention to the appearance of their ears, because the majority of people properly developed ears that look natural and don’t stand out too much. However, some people have malformed or disfigured ears as a result of genetic factors or due to damage done to the tissue of the ear.
Otoplasty provides these individuals with a way to reshape their ears for a more natural appearance. This include resizing and reshaping the ear, as well as adjusting the amount of projection the ear has. Otoplasty can be performed on older individuals and on children as young as […]
