Before and after left earlobe repair and repiercing in a 51-year-old woman. Her ear piercing had stretched out gradually over time due to her children pulling on hoop earrings when they were babies. She found it challenging to keep small stud earrings in her earring hole – they wanted to fall out.
A lobule repair and repiercing was performed under local anesthesia in the office. A new earring hole was created higher up on the earlobe and one millimeter to the side of the old piercing to best match the right ear piercing.
After surgery, she took two weeks off exercise and began applying scar gel at one month postoperatively to encourage faster scar maturing and to avoid the sun from tanning the scar darker during healing.
Follow up photos are shown two months after surgery. The scar is pink, as expected for this early stage of healing. It will take a full year for the scar to fade and flatten as immature collagen is gradually replaced with mature collagen, a process that happens naturally.
*All photos are actual patient photographs and are for illustrative purposes only. Individual results may vary.
