People have pierced their ears for thousands of years for ceremonial, cultural, religious, and decorative purposes. The oldest known example of ear piercing comes from “Ötzi the Iceman,” a man who ...

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Body jewelry is worn inside a wound and it contacts your internal body tissues. So, body jewelry must be made of an appropriate material, especially when your piercing is fresh and healing. To be ...

Regardless of if it’s something you’ve had planned for months or a spur-of-the-moment decision on a Friday night – getting a new piercing is just straight-up exciting. But like anything else in the ...

The body may reject a piercing, slowly pushing it out of the skin. This occurs when the immune system identifies the piercing object as foreign and seeks to remove it. The process of pushing a foreign ...

A cheek piercing, sometimes called a dimple piercing, is a piercing on the side of the face, typically right above the side of the mouth where a dimple would naturally indent. It can also be placed ...