Do cartilage piercings close up?

Oh no, you’ve left your cartilage piercing out for a bit too long and now you’re panicking wondering if it’s going to close up. Just calm down because we have got the answers for you.

Introduction

Piercings are trendy fashion accessories in this era, with more people embracing body art than ever before. Piercing enthusiasts love their earrings, whether they dangle from their earlobes or hug onto their upper-ear hoop-style through the thick cartilage layer. But what happens when your earring falls out of its original hole? Does the piercing disappear forever? Or will it stay open so that you can insert another earring later on?

Understanding Cartilage Piercing

Cartilage refers to any type of connective tissue, which includes ligaments and tendons as well as joint structures. In contrast to skin and other types of tissues in our bodies where cells can be replaced quickly upon injury or damage, the cells within our cartilages don’t regrow efficiently compared to other animal species like dolphins (they’re way more talented). Cells take longer time to repair/replace themselves here; hence deeming it completely reasonable why healing after metallic puncture (>more commonly referred [to] as ear-cartilage piercing) takes several months! Phew!

Cartilage is firmer than soft tissues because there is less blood supply running through them, making them harder—and longer —to heal should anything go wrong. The human immune system – bless her heart—is responsible for preventing bacteria from taking hold inside healed tunnels/puncture-holes resulting in growths/bumps/deformities which 80% who’s counting times are usually pretty unattractive.

Instead of subjecting yourself—your pizza-face type acne-priestess—to possible chaos by waiting until your pierced position closes naturally, an alternative logical move would definitely be replacing the earring you forgot to put back on or get yourself another piercing through your cartilage. But hey, we are not a cult encouraging folks like you to go seek more puncturing(s), Eww!

Factors Influencing Cartilage Piercing’s “Closure”

Many factors determine how quickly and thoroughly a hole will seal up once jewelry is removed from it:

  • Position: The location of the piercing influences closure time. A perforation in an area with lots of blood flow —like on earlobes—will close more slowly than those found in less vascular parts.

  • Size/depth [Popo!]: Small piercings tend to close faster compared to larger gauge-piercings because there isn’t that much skin missing around the area, except if maybe one failed at controlling their inner Pichioner (try saying that fast!). See Table 1 below for this fact.

    Gauge size Time it takes for the hole to heal
    14G 2 – 6 months
    16G Weeks
  • Age:The youngest individuals’ piercings shut down way quicker than older peeps sobs. This occurs due to (dissimilar rate) development whereby younger skull portions literally grow… fill in gaps between previously existing tissues left by perforating metal items whereas adult tissues aren’t as generous say after age thirty (or so)

Sometimes a mixed combination of these factors can make one’s hurt ends ‘up going bye-bye’, but such extremely rare cases could party attribute get it? themselves too insane infections resulting possibly from evil corporations using radio waves/untested substances/kitten sacrifice during club-house tryouts yikes! We’re joking; please don’t sue us…not like we have money anyway!

Can Cartilage Piercings Be Revived?

Yes, cartilage piercings can be revived when they close up! But how are you supposed to know whether a piercing is declining or disappearing due to swelling? Perhaps your mobile-microbial crew giggles has inflicted some trauma on the spot. How do you learn signs of a closed hole then?

  • Attempt First Aid: Apply Pressure! Alright no need for the extra dramatics; just soaking your earlobe in saline water might help remove any dirt/pus surrounding tryna heal piercing.

  • Take Things Slowly: Better not shove an earring back into obliterated tissues without professional assistance. Seek out experienced piercers and ask them their opinion on the given case scenario – obvs make sure you’re risk-taker types first!

  • Avoid Complications/Until fully healed: You may want to avoid swimming/the gym/touching your ear till after about 8 -12 months at least—Even more reason why couples should always spring Summer weddings rather than Winter ones—it helps people like us prepare our bodies for certain situations.

When Can I Leave My Cartilage Piercing Out For Good?

When happy with where we stand given all standard medical precautionary measures/designs keeping pussycat diseases at bay/inherited antibiotic-resistant microbes eluding us (yes it’s terrifying!), there reaches that point where life sends us vacation tickets requiring sacrificing certain things such as pierced holes in and around our cartilages 🙂 As much fun as carrying on caring/marketing those annoying earrings looks wise one must stay sane-in-the-cephalopodian-region off draining eye clouds whilst performing day-to-day functions…I digress.

So, supposing life does happen upon us —changing careers/moving countries/having vampires hunting down selected victims—we can leave this sort-out well…permanently (if intended) healed perforations open if happy enough with aesthetics/outlook of proceedings taking into account all possible financial costs incurred.

We hope wearing your favorite new pair of earrings gets to continue bringing you joy in every season-happy earring hunting!

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