Ear jobs: a new trend in the world of cosmetic surgery
Wearing large earrings can cause earlobes to become saggy, and many people are turning to cosmetic surgery in order to give their ears a new lease on life.
According to The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (BAAPS), the trend for earlobe surgery is increasingly popular, especially with women who are keen to fight the signs of ageing.
Many women who have booked in for a cosmetic surgery procedure such as a facelift are keen to have their earlobes worked on too, as they feel saggy earlobes can be tell-tale signs of getting older.
So strong is the growing interest in the earlobe surgery that BAAPS even included a presentation detailing what is involved with earlobe correction at its recent conference.
Cosmetic surgery adviser and editor of beautyinthebag.com, Wendy Lewis, told the Daily Mail newspaper, “It is no secret that more women are having what could be called a 'lobe job'. Gravity takes its toll on earlobes — they droop like chins and breasts do, and can make you look older.
“Years of wearing heavy earrings also cause the lobe to get stretched out of shape. An earlobe reduction is a simple op that reshapes the earlobe to a better proportion. Another issue for women is a torn earlobe, where the hole from a pierced ear gets so stretched that the lobe tears open and has to be stitched together,” Ms Lewis went on to say.
One cosmetic surgeon, Christopher Inglefield, who is based at London Bridge Plastic Surgery, confirmed the high number of people looking into the procedure, telling the newspaper that around 75 per cent of all patients who made an enquiry about facial rejuvenation also had 'elongated earlobes'.
One satisfied client who had cosmetic surgery carried out on her earlobes was 58-year-old Rosalie Williams, who said that the non-invasive procedure has been extremely successful. “I had massive earlobes, which stretched from wearing earrings over the years," she said. "It got to the point where I didn’t want to draw attention to them.
“I went to see Mr Inglefield to discuss some work on my face and he told me he had a special procedure for making earlobes smaller. It didn’t hurt. My stitches aren’t out yet, but I already have a much smaller, neater lobe and can’t wait to wear earrings again," Ms Williams told the news source.
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