bioplast

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Friday June 20th, 2008 @ 9:06 PM

Filed under: Lip/Cheek

Warren,

I have just read your post about bioplast, and was wondering what alternative you would reccomend. I had my side labret pierced 2 weeks ago and the first week was good, but the second I found myself biting the bar by accident. I even chipped a little bit off my tooth, and even worse, the second time I bit it so hard the ball got pulled under my skin, which was quite a disgusting experience. To save my teeth I thought it would be best to get a bioplast bar…also to save my job as my boss did not like the look of my latest piercing and I told him I would meet him halfway and not take it out, but put something less visible in there.

Obviously its quite a new piercing, but I’m quite worried now about the bioplast bar, is there some other kind of retainer you would recommend?

cheers.

fearata,

Thank you for actually taking the time to research through AskBME to then make a informed question on something that is perhaps not already answered. It helps make the AskBME staff members days just so much easier when people do what you did

There is a couple reasons why you could be experiencing what you are experiencing. 1) The piercings are not placed in the ideal position and thus enabling you to easily bite down on the discs/posts if you’re not careful (ie: while eating,etc) 2) It could simply be yourself and the natural human instinct to want to nibble on/play with the piercing. When I had my tongue piercings and my labret piercings, I was always getting called out on the fact I would play with them, even though I didn’t realize I was.

However the problem with you getting the BioPlast jewelry is this…If you are currently chewing/biting on your jewelry, you’re going to do the exact same thing with the BioPlast. Which the result of the occasional gnaw/bite on a plastic bar, is that you’re going to break the disc portion clean off. I see it happen all the time, with customers that come in looking for more bioplast. Essentially if you purchased a BioPlast labret stud, it would be a “money pit” for you , as you would be buying one every month or so depending on how often you bite down on the bar.

For something less visible, and in a fresh piercing (2 weeks old), I would strongly suggest you look into purchasing a Quartz Labret Retainer. Quartz Glass is a strong durable glass that’s autoclaveable and has had relatively great success in fresh piercings.

However the hard part is going to be your ability to try and focus yourself into not biting down on the jewelry, if you’re doing so by way of “playing with it”. But if its a result of placement, then the only way to resolve the problem would be to re-adjust the placement by letting it heal up and re-doing the piercing in a better position.

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