I’d never thought much about plastic surgery until last year, when my left ear piercing enlarged just enough for a stud to fall through. The trouble all started with the small gauge I wore when I was ...

MINNEAPOLIS -Nathan Janke, 28, said he believes he got his first ear piercing at about age 10. The then Fairmont youngster began ear "stretching" shortly thereafter. Now, his lobes hold decorative ...

When Daniel Bocchino was 16, he started stretching his ear lobes, expanding them until he had an inch-wide hole in each lobe. But by the time he was 19, he was so over the piercing trend known as ear ...

Dr. Julie Khanna inspects Kurt Barnett's earlobes. Both have big holes surrounded by droopy, thinned flesh. "We're going to cut a piece here, cut a piece here, close the opening here," the plastic ...

IT'S the lobe-stretching tribal trend loved by teens - but surgeons reveal the true legacy of gauging will be anything but music to their ears. Gauging, where ear lobes are progressively stretched ...

Ear stretching goes back a long way. But you don't have to visit a museum or travel to a remote-ish part of the world to see it because the practice has been adopted in many Western countries. However ...

I’d never thought much about plastic surgery until last year, when my left ear piercing enlarged just enough for a stud to fall through. The trouble started with the small gauge I wore when I was 15 ...

Dr. Julie Khanna inspects Kurt Barnett's earlobes. Both have big holes surrounded by droopy, thinned flesh. "We're going to cut a piece here, cut a piece here, close the opening here," the plastic ...