Believe it or not, the ears are one of those body parts that can instantly give away your age. But thanks to enterprising cosmetic surgeons and dermatologists, they’re now being plumped and padded just like the face. “Earlobes lose volume, just as your face loses volume as you get older,” says Dr. Hema Sundaram, a Washington, D.C., dermatologist and author of “Face Value: The Truth About Beauty and a Guilt-Free Guide to Finding It.” “You don’t want a situation where the face looks lifted and the earlobes still look like sad sacks.”
Sundaram says she regularly repairs earlobes damaged by heavy earrings or trauma (elongated holes, torn lobes, etc.), then adds volume and strength by injecting dermal fillers such as Restylane or Perlane. Lasers are also used to tighten sagging skin and elongated earlobes can also be nipped and tucked with a surgical procedure that removes a wedge of tissue. Cost for a nonsurgical lobe lift (using dermal fillers) is between $450 to $650 for both ears and the procedure lasts for 4 to 12 months -- or longer. “I’ve had some patients going strong for two to three years,” says Sundaram.
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