Before and after bilateral lobule repair and repiercing in a 34-year-old woman who previously had large (1.5 inches) gauges in her earlobes. She had taken her gauges out six months previously; the earlobe skin had contracted as much as it was going to. She wanted her earlobes to look normal, to wear regular hoop earrings again, and “to be able to get a real job.”
Obliteration of the old gauge holes, with reconstruction and local tissue rearrangement of her earlobe tissue was performed in the office under local anesthesia. Dissolving sutures were placed, and a new piercing was made in the reconstructed lobule.
Follow up photos are shown 6 weeks after surgery. She is ready to start scar therapy and is grateful to not have the stigma and negative assumptions of potential employers when they see her earlobes.
*All photos are actual patient photographs and are for illustrative purposes only. Individual results may vary.
