Plan to pamper yourself a little. A positive mental outlook can help speed healing and help you look and feel your best. Laser technology has revolutionized facial plastic surgery, providing surgeons with safer and more effective techniques for minimizing the visibility of birthmarks and other blemishes, treating fine wrinkles, and revising facial scars. Now the versatile laser has found a new use-treating signs of aging in the ears. As we age, the outer ear develops telltale creases and wrinkles.
Collagen fibers relax, causing sagging and elongation of the earlobes.
Until recently, these problems could not be treated effectively. Now, surgeons are using lasers to treat age-related changes in the ear. The laser burns away the top layers of skin, minimizing wrinkles and creases. Laser treatment also tightens collagen fibers in the ear, shrinking sagging lobes and restoring a more natural appearance.