hi, just thought i would ask if anyone knew anything about these.
here's a picture to explain more easily.

just wondered if anyone knew anything about this starnge little hole. i've had one all my life and didn't think much of it then i met someone else who had one and his daughter had one too.

anyway...any information would be great thanks

Never seen them before. Are they on both of your ears or just one?

no just on one ear raptor x7.

Oops my bad. I couldn't see the hole for a moment.

It looks like a chicken pox scar.

yeah theres a better picture here.
http://162.129.70.33/images/Preauricular_Sinus_1_030508.jpg
more like a piercing than anything.

i dunno i just thought someone might know something about it

To me it looks like a scar, maybe from chickenpox like Lottie said. It might just be a coincidence that you both have it, although it is kinda wierd.

If you're at all related, it could be something genetic?

Oh, and welcome to the forum.

-Double post-

you know I have known two people with bumps on one ear, but no one with a hole.

I have a five month old baby who has them in both ears. I've read that they are ear malformations and that they are usually hereditary. You should look back to your family tree and. figure out who has them. My found out that my mother-in-law had them. (she passed away 15 years ago)

My daughter has them as well - here is an explaination of what they are. Credit goes to doctorhoffman

This is known in the biz as a "preauricular pit." For the sake of orientation, here's a bit of anatomy: the outer rim of the ear is called the helix. The area where the helix is attached to the face is known as the helical root. A preauricular pit is a tiny (1 to 2 millimeter) hole in the skin of the helical root.
Pits are present at birth; they form during early fetal development. In the 5th to 6th week post-conception, 6 tiny lumps of tissue begin merging, and by the 20th fetal week, these lumps have formed the external ear. If this process is something less than perfect, any number of external ear anomalies may result. Preauricular pits are (arguably) one of the milder anomalies that may result from imperfect external ear development. They are skin-lined and are typically less than one inch in depth.

Pits are significant for two reasons. First, pits can become infected. An infected pit usually presents as a soft or hard swelling at the helical root; press on the swollen area, and a drop of pus will emerge from the pit. This can be treated with antibiotics, of course, but if the pit keeps getting infected you would probably want to have it surgically removed. This can be done under local anesthesia. You must make sure that your surgeon is familiar with pits. Simply excising the outer (visible) portion of the pit is inadequate; the surgeon must excise the entire pit. An ear, nose and throat surgeon would be the best choice for this procedure, since we all have experience with pits.

Pits are also significant because they can be an indicator for other ear problems. In other words, there is a higher-than-chance association of pits with other (less visible) ear anomalies. These "deeper" anomalies are important because they usually impair hearing to some degree. You may or may not have noticed such a hearing loss; the loss may be mild, and may easily have gone unnoticed on school audiograms.