500% increase in patients seeking 'tribal ear' correction

Think carefully before stretching your earlobes, says surgeon Adrian Richards This time last year, tribal ear correction  wasn’t high up on the list of most popular procedures at Aurora Clinics. In fact, surgeon Adrian Richards saw “virtually no patients” who were looking for this particular surgery. But now the fashion for inserting disc-shaped stretchers, or ‘plugs’ into the earlobes has created something of a growth industry. More and more patients are beginning to seek repair to the holes in their lobes.