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| Because [[Lobe|earlobe]] [[Stretching|stretching]] is one of humanity's oldest body modifications, [[Earlobe reconstruction|earlobe reconstruction]] surgery is one of its oldest forms of [[Plastic surgery|plastic surgery]]. Because large earlobes are essentially permanent (they rarely go back to "normal" if stretched too far), at any point in history where people with stretched lobes live with those without, there are people who regret their decisions and want to move from one group to another. Hence the need for a surgery that "corrects" ears from stretched to unstretched.
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| In [[India]] somewhere around 300 BC, a surgeon called [[Sushruta]] described a procedure for restoring stretched lobes that had been torn off — in India at the time earlobes had both spiritual/cultural and esthetic value and long ones were highly desirable, so if one was damaged there was a need to fix it. Sushruta's "fix" for this became the basis for pedical flap surgery which is still used today. In his text ''[[Sushruta Samhita]]'' he writes,
| | '''Emrys Yetz''' is the founder of [[Rites Of Passage]], a [[Suspension]] group. |
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| > A surgeon well versed in the knowledge of surgery should slice off a patch of living flesh from the cheek of a person devoid of earlobes in a manner so as to have one of its ends attached to (the cheek). Then the part where the artificial earlobe is to be made should be slightly scarified and the living flesh ... should be stuck to it.
| | ''He can be found on IAM at'' [http://iam.bmezine.com/?Tyler+Durden IAM: Tyler Durden]. |
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| Pretty impressive for well over two thousand years ago! Some writers have suggested that it is India's experimentation with body modification that lead them to develop medical technologies that wouldn't become common in the West for millennia later.
| | Yetz is a dedicated and high quality professional [[Piercer]]. Yetz has been a professional piercer for ten years. He currently pierces at [[Lucky's]] in Northampton and Amherst, MA, and also pierces out of [[Lefty's]] In his hometown of Pittsfield, MA. Yetz says ''"I do my best to make the client feel comfortable and provide an professional, aseptic procedure along with being there to help with any further questions down the road."'' |
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| In later times, the [[Roman|Romans]] went the other direction. In the 1st century AD the writer Celcus describes in his medical encyclopedia a procedure to convert stretched ears back into normal lobes. As you can see from the illustration below, it's an almost identical procedure to the ones doctors use in modern times:
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| [[File:Earlobe_Reconstruction_History-1.gif|center]] | | * [[Splash of Color]] |
| | * [[Crazy Chameleon]] |
| | * [[Obscurities]] |
| | * [[Brutal Temtations]] |
| | * [[Bowery Tattoo]] |
| | * [[Peter tat-2]] |
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| In more recent history, plastic surgery has been used to Westernize "savages" who wish to transition from Africa, South America, and other regions where stretching is still the norm, as well as to correct the mistakes of individuals who stretched farther than they turned out to be able to handle in their life.
| | == External Links == |
| | | * [http://www.luckystattoo.org www.luckystattoo.org] |
| ''(Reference: "Ancient Inventions" by Peter James and Nick Thorpe)''
| | * [http://www.ariteofpassage.org www.ariteofpassage.org] |
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| == See Also == | |
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| * [[Earlobe Stretching|Earlobe Stretching]] | |
Emrys Yetz is the founder of Rites Of Passage, a Suspension group.
He can be found on IAM at IAM: Tyler Durden.
Yetz is a dedicated and high quality professional Piercer. Yetz has been a professional piercer for ten years. He currently pierces at Lucky's in Northampton and Amherst, MA, and also pierces out of Lefty's In his hometown of Pittsfield, MA. Yetz says "I do my best to make the client feel comfortable and provide an professional, aseptic procedure along with being there to help with any further questions down the road."
Other Shops Emrys has been associated with:
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