What is best age to get baby ears pierced
What is the correct age to go for ear piercing? - Dr. Satish Babu K
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hello I am dr. Suresh Babu senior
consultant ent head and neck surgeon
working with the Apollo Hospital
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we have seen in our practice that ear
piercing is done at different age groups
in different cultures sometimes
according to the preference of the
parents sometimes according to the
preference of the baby right it does not
really matter when you get the ears
pierced but as early as one month or
younger it is not really advisable
because the the pinna the soft part of
the year or what we call lobule of the
year has not really fully formed and if
you look at an infant's here that that
would probably be about 2 or 3
millimeters wide so if you pierce right
now you may not get the exact
positioning of the ear ring in the
future and you may even injure the
cartilage right so it is preferable to
give a little time just to have the
lobule formed properly and you can
really hit the hole in the center right
but it doesn't matter when when you are
doing it because we have seen especially
in Arab culture as soon as the baby is
born before the baby gets discharged
from the hospital
most of these Arab parents get the baby
CS pierced so it really doesn't matter
but preferably after the year lobules
you know formed at least about half a
centimeter size and it's got sufficient
thickness you can go ahead and pierce it
the younger it is better because the
pain sensation is much limited in
younger children so they tolerate the
procedure very well even in older
children if the first kid is not
tolerating pain well then we can use
some local anesthetic creams and make
that area slightly less sensitive and go
ahead and pierce a year without much of
a fee
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