Ear Surgery Experts in Richmond, VA

Otoplasty, or cosmetic surgery of the ear, involves reshaping or resizing the ear to make it more aesthetically pleasing.

Earlobes can be stretched by time, heavy earrings or by gauging. Earlobe reconstruction is a simple, office based procedure to restore the earlobes to their original shape. If you desire, Dr. Schmidt can re-pierce reconstructed earlobes after the healing process is complete.

Torn earlobes can be reconstructed in the office with local anesthesia. While this is more complicated than simple resizing of the earlobe, our repairs are designed to be stronger than the original earlobe and can be repierced after the healing process is complete.

For prominent ears, sutures are placed under the skin to reshape the folds of the ear and to pin the ear back to the side of the head.