Too Thin?

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Wednesday November 21st, 2007 @ 11:24 PM

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I’ve been wondering for a while…how thin is too thin when it comes to tissue around a stretched lobe? (I’m talking about in well healed, slowly stretched piercings.) I know everyone is different but at what point would most professionals say, “hey, you might want to…”?

This is sort of a two part question. Second, what should a person do if they have stretched lobes, to say 0 or 00ga, but because the piercings were origionally done too low they can no longer stretch? The holes won’t close completely and after trying resting, downsizing, and massage there just isn’t any increase in the tissue. If closure is the only option, what exactly should a person be looking for a plastic surgeon to do to guarentee that they can have thier lobes re-pierced and stretched to the size they want in the future?

Thanks and I hope you can understand my questions!

This problem often occurs because not every piercer asks the client if they are planning on stretching their piercings.

One option is visiting a qualified body modification practitioner and have your lobes re-directed via scalpel. My lobe piercings were not even when I went to go to 1/2″ so my practitioner opted to re-direct the lobe piercings subtly. Now this won’t stop the lower portion of your lobes from being potentially as thin as they are, but it can help get to a size you want to be at.

If you are going through the plastic surgeon they are essentially going to close the hole’s up. Which depending on their procedure techniques usually is a matter of removing a piece of the lower portion of the stretched lobe and suturing it up. If you search ModBlog and BMEZine there’s various photo’s showing lobe reconstructions via Plastic Surgeons.

If you opt to go that route personally I’d suggest you’ll want to make sure you wait a good while, like a year or more, before re-piercing and attempting to stretch.

As for when I feel like I should point out on customers about their lobes thinning, is when the bottom portion of the lobes are very thin and not a good healthy thickness to them, especially when the thickness of the lobes is not uniformed and consistent.

Often I see stretched lobes that are thinning along the inner portion of the lobe that pushes up against the persons face, due to it being pierced too close to the face. Or it’s directly in the center point of the lower lobe because the piercings were done too low.

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