The part of the ear where people mostly adorn themselves with earrings, is the earlobe. Since time long, our culture has practiced the piercing of the ears, to accessorise with the jewel. In some zones, this comes from a place, where this is a custom to get the young girls pierced. Worldwide, it is the showcase to beautify oneself. Also, earlobes constitutes of just skin and fat, since no hard cartilage is a part of it, people take this too, in their advantage to overburden the lobes with very heavy, hanging rings.

give you back that new, puberty, uplifted earlobe. Yes, it’s that simple and cost effective too. Concerned about the pain? Well, this surgery is done under the affect of local anesthesia. So, there is a readymade solution, to your problem. Even though, there are methods to rectify a split or a droopy ear, we should still, take in our earnest concern to not overhang the ears for beauty purposes alone.

Earlobes can be classified as

• Incomplete cleft where the split occurs due to the adornment of heavy jewelleries. This is bilateral
• Complete cleft occurs as a result of local trauma to the ear. It usually affects the ear unilaterally.

Treatment

Treatment comes of course in the form of surgery. The doctor simply sutures the split ear under anesthesia. The stitches are removed in the next appointment

In case of pain, the patient maybe advised to take pain killers. But this is a rare occurring. After the surgery, utmost vigilance should be made to keep the surgical site clean. Within a few days, the patient is fully recovered. The prognosis of a earlobe repair is very good.