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Monday January 14th, 2008 @ 10:13 PM

Filed under: Ear

I have 2 rooks and 3 helix piercings that are all at least 7 months old. Also, none of them are healed and still have crusties and are still a little painful. I do salt soaks and they only seem to help temporarily. Question: is 7 months too soon for me to expect them to be healed? Or is there some factor I’m not aware of slowing the healing time?

Thanks!

Did you obtain them all at the same time? Or did you obtain them all on off-set periods of time? Are they all on the same ear or are they on both ears?

7 months can still be too soon, especially with the amount of cartilage work you’ve obtained. I would look more towards the year marker for them to be healed, perhaps even longer.

If they are on both ears what you have to remember is the amount of stuff that comes in contact with your ears, ie: telephones, headsets (mp3 players,etc), pillows, hair (for those with hair),etc. All these things contain contaminates that can prolong the healing time, plus pressure/bumps/bangs being applied to cartilage work tends to really irritate them.

This is why I tend to do no more than 3 piercings on a client in one sitting and before doing any others make sure they are healing very well before attempting anymore work. Also when its involving ear cart work, I try to talk them into getting it on one side. As well as stress the concept of reducing the amount of impact that ear takes, ie: to only use a phone on the non-pierced ear,etc.

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