General Piercing Questions

I get this one a lot. I would have to say that since I'm for the most part a traditionalist, all the piercings I've done are common. I have done some interest combinations with ear piercings. One of the most unusual, a set of scrotum piercings on a Pre Op Male to Female transgender that was interesting. I did a ladder of 5 scrotum piercings on each side of the scrotum. Once the piercings where healed they could tuck penis inside the scrotum and then put barbells through the piercings and hide the penis. If you didn't look too closely it looked like a vagina with labia piercings.

The short answer is NO.

It is seburn. Seburn is produced by your sebaceous glands & ducts that are located throughout your skin in the skin(including the skin inside of piercings). These glands produce oils and fats and generally open into the hair follicles and give off seburn. Seburn then seeps into the hair follicle and works it's way to the surface where it spreads into a thin film.

This is a tricky question and it is one of those that the only correct answer is, it depends. To understand this I think it would be important to point out that the piercing goes through two stages of healing:

Signs of infection are: Redness, discoloration, swelling, heat/fever, on or around the piercings, pain the is throbbing and/or shooting/travels, pus and/or discharge that is unnatural in color like grayish. yellowish and/or greenish.

Contact you piercer or a doctor as soon as you can. Do not put off getting the infection taken care of because it can only get worst and maybe spread and turn systematic. Yes you can die from a piercing that is infected if it is not taken care of and the bacteria enters your blood stream and spreads. When in doubt contact your doctor. I have over 8 years of experience solving problems with piercings but if it's beyond my help. I'll be the first one to tell you to seek professional medical help. Do not remove the jewelry.

The majority of the piercing I preform, are traditional piercing that have been tried and tested. Some dating back thousands of years. I feel that it is my responsibility to insure that the piercing I do preform have the best possible results. Often the more unusually the piercing, the lower the success rate and often times they have to be re-pierced over and over due to migration.

Once the piercing has finished the first stage of healing and is no longer an open wound, you can change the jewelry. Taking the jewelry only out to be replaced within a short period of time.

Well, first off, the jewelry should not be removed during the first stage of healing unless the jewelry is of the incorrect size or shape and even then only under the guidence of a piercer. Piercing heals by producing tissue starting at each piercing hole and then growing toward the center. The only thing keeping it in line is the piercing during the healing period.  Think of it like to teams tunneling through a mountian with piece of wire to guide them. If you take away the guide then often it is hard to match the jewelry with the other hole. 

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