Do your ears keep growing as age ?

Answer 1

A number of scientific studies have been conducted over the years in an attempt to answer this perplexing question. One such project found that on average, ears grow one-hundredth of an inch every year.
Many people are under that impression that our ears and nose get bigger throughout life because they are made of cartilage, which continues to grow after our bones have stopped. While this is true of the cartilage in fish that lack a bone skeleton, such as sharks, the expert at the MadSci network says it's simply not true for humans and other animals with a bone skeleton.

So what accounts for the largish ears and nose one tends to see on older folk? Some speculate that large ears somehow correlate with longer life, so those with biggish ears are simply the ones who make it to old age. And on a plastic surgery site, we read, "Nasal cartilage becomes thinner and loses its elasticity as we age, causing the tip of the nose to lengthen and droop." So maybe our nose and ears just get droopier?

Fact is, no one really knows. This smells like one of those eternally confounding scientific questions that we'll continue to hear about until someone sniffs out a satisfactory explanation.

Answer 2

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Do your ears keep growing as age ?

Answer 3

I'm not for sure if it's true or not but I have heard that your nose and ears keep growing as you age.

Answer 4

Am so glad I found your question! I will tell all my old friends we can add ears to our sagging list!!! Here's the information I found:

Do our ears grow longer with age?

As we see others age or as we see ourselves age, we often notice that ears appear to get longer in middle and old age. But do they really?

The scientific validity of this common observation has been challenged from time to time by those who maintain that ears don't really grow longer (or larger) with age - they only look as if they do - that it's all just an illusion.

They point out that since the body shrinks somewhat with age, the ears may appear to have grown longer (and larger) while actually staying the same size. So what does science say? In fact, our ears do grow longer with age. Indeed, they grow throughout our lives.

In 1990, Drs L Pelz and B Stein from Medical Branch of the University of Rostock in Germany measured the ears of 1,271 children and adolescents. They report in Padiatrie und Grenzgebiete that ear length increases "steadily and annually", but ear width remains the same.

Dr James Heathcote, a general practitioner from Kent in the UK, along with four colleagues, studied 206 patients with the mean age of 53. Dr Heathcote concluded in the 23 December 1995 British Medical Journal, that "as we get older our ears get bigger (on average by 0.22mm a year)".

The next year, in the 2 March British Medical Journal, Dr Yashhiro Asai, a physician at the Futanazu Clinic in Misaki, Japan, along with three colleagues, agreed with Heathcote. Their study of 400 consecutive patients aged 20 and older concludes "that ear length correlates significantly with age, as Heathcote showed, in Japanese people".

In 1999, Dr VF Ferrario and four colleagues from the Functional Anatomy Research Centre at the University of Milan in Italy, writing in the Journal of Craniofacial Genetic Developmental Biology, present evidence that not only do ears get longer with age, but it happens to both women and men. Men’s ears start out longer than women's and they stay that way.

Why ears grow longer with age? Gravity over time forces every body appendage to sag. The bane of human aging: If it can sag, it will sag! Ears included.

Answer 5

yes, up to about age 25 with the end of puberty. After that, it is a matter of the skin being replaced from within. You basically have new skin every 7 years.

Answer 6

yes both ur ears and nose never stop growing.

Answer 7

Yes, unfortunately, thats why old men have huge ears.

Answer 8

sorry but yes. the cartilage continues to grow so both ur nose and ears get bigger.

Answer 9

Yes at 0.025 cm every year

Answer 10

no ur ears never grow, they are the same size from birth.