Shattering?

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Friday January 11th, 2008 @ 9:50 PM

Filed under: Piercing

I’ve just recently heard of cartilage shattering and I’m wondering what it is. I get that it does mean the cartilage shatters, but like how does that happen?

The way shattering occurs is much like how anything else shatters (ie: glass,etc). Pressure applies to the specific semi-hard to hard surface and to release the pressure it breaks/shatters.

This has been known to occur when a piercing gun has been used on ear cartilage. As well as I know of it occurring via a piercing studio when a forcep was applied tightly to ear cartilage and then a dull needle was passed through the cartilage.

That is essentially HOW it occurs, but why it occurred to you, I sadly cannot explain. Not unless I was able to witness the procedure you got done, that caused the shattering.

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