The Anti-Aging Hacks You Wish You Knew Years Ago!

Okay, so on today's podcast, it's all about little things that you can do that can make a big change in your life, and I'm gonna be sharing 10 different things.

These are skincare, uh, plastic surgery related, uh, that you hopefully have never heard of.

So the first one I'm gonna share with you is lobe wonder.

So I get a lot of patients who come to see me, and they ask me to fix their earlobe.

Uh, typically, the story is that I, "I was wearing some type of a hoop type of an earring, and something caught it, and it tore through my earlobe." So sometimes people get actual tears through the earlobe, where it's a, an actual tear that goes all the way through.

Other times, people just get a stretching of their ear piercing.

So the piercing is no longer a hole, but it's more like a slash, like a, almost like a gash, uh, in their earlobe.

And the problem with these, obviously, is that it's hard to wear earrings, and obviously, there's a cosmetic aspect to it as well.

The permanent treatment for this is surgical.

Some people sa- ask me, "Hey, Dr. Youn, can't you just put a stitch in it? Isn't that gonna cause it to heal together?" Well, actually, no.

And the reason why is that if you've got skin on skin and you're trying to suture skin to skin, there's no raw surface to heal together, okay? Skin, if you suture it to other skin, is not gonna fuse magically together.

You have to have raw surface to raw surface.

And so if I have a patient of mine who has a torn earlobe, what you have to do is, quote-unquote, "freshen up the edges" by removing the actual skin, and then you suture the raw tissue to raw tissue, uh, to create basically the healed earlobe.

So putting a simple stitch into a torn piercing doesn't work.

You gotta actually cut the piercing out and then stitch it together.

You let that piercing heal for about six to eight weeks, and then you pierce again next to it.

But what if you don't wanna do all that? Well, that's why you're listening to this podcast.

[laughs] There is a, uh, product called Lobe Wonder.

Lobe Wonder is like a little patch that you can put behind your earlobe.

It adheres to the earlobe, and it's thick enough that you can actually put an earring through it.

Now, essentially, you are patching up a, a problem.

It is a temporary solution, uh, to an issue that you may have, but it really does work.

So let's say you've got a torn earlobe, it happened, and you haven't had a chance to get it fixed, and you've got an event you wanna go to, and you've got certain earrings that you wanna wear.

Go on Amazon, and I'll put the link in the caption of this video, and you can buy Lobe Wonder.

It's not that expensive.

Okay, so on today's podcast, it's all about little things that you can do that can make a big change in your life, and I'm gonna be sharing 10 different things.

These are skincare, uh, plastic surgery related, uh, that you hopefully have never heard of.

So the first one I'm gonna share with you is lobe wonder.

So I get a lot of patients who come to see me, and they ask me to fix their earlobe.

Uh, typically, the story is that I, "I was wearing some type of a hoop type of an earring, and something caught it, and it tore through my earlobe." So sometimes people get actual tears through the earlobe, where it's a, an actual tear that goes all the way through.

Other times, people just get a stretching of their ear piercing.

So the piercing is no longer a hole, but it's more like a slash, like a, almost like a gash, uh, in their earlobe.

And the problem with these, obviously, is that it's hard to wear earrings, and obviously, there's a cosmetic aspect to it as well.

The permanent treatment for this is surgical.

Some people sa- ask me, "Hey, Dr. Youn, can't you just put a stitch in it? Isn't that gonna cause it to heal together?" Well, actually, no.

And the reason why is that if you've got skin on skin and you're trying to suture skin to skin, there's no raw surface to heal together, okay? Skin, if you suture it to other skin, is not gonna fuse magically together.

You have to have raw surface to raw surface.

And so if I have a patient of mine who has a torn earlobe, what you have to do is, quote-unquote, "freshen up the edges" by removing the actual skin, and then you suture the raw tissue to raw tissue, uh, to create basically the healed earlobe.

So putting a simple stitch into a torn piercing doesn't work.

You gotta actually cut the piercing out and then stitch it together.

You let that piercing heal for about six to eight weeks, and then you pierce again next to it.

But what if you don't wanna do all that? Well, that's why you're listening to this podcast.

[laughs] There is a, uh, product called Lobe Wonder.

Lobe Wonder is like a little patch that you can put behind your earlobe.

It adheres to the earlobe, and it's thick enough that you can actually put an earring through it.

Now, essentially, you are patching up a, a problem.

It is a temporary solution, uh, to an issue that you may have, but it really does work.

So let's say you've got a torn earlobe, it happened, and you haven't had a chance to get it fixed, and you've got an event you wanna go to, and you've got certain earrings that you wanna wear.

Go on Amazon, and I'll put the link in the caption of this video, and you can buy Lobe Wonder.

It's not that expensive.