piercing with 18 carat gold jewelry

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Saturday July 26th, 2008 @ 12:05 PM

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Is it common to use gold as an initial choice for jewelry when first being pierced? can I bring into my piercer a gold piece of jewelry to be autoclaved and used in a fresh piercing? I’ve really only heard of people being pierced with implant grade steel, titanium and niobium. will the softness of gold affect the autoclaving process?

also, on a related note, do they make 18 ct gold microdermal anchors? I looked at the Industrial Strength and Anatometal websites with no luck. I would like the look of a gold microdermal, but if I have to go the route of titanium foot with a gold (or gold colored titanium) ball, then that’s what I will do.

I don’t know if or why gold wouldn’t be a good choice for initial jewelry for a piercing or be safe enough to implant under the skin, but my guess is that it has something to do with the softness or nickel content.

Thanks in advance for your insight.

With body piercing, it’s typically not common to pierce with gold initial jewelry. This is greatly because of the cost of the gold.
I do special orders for 18k palladium alloyed gold jewelry on request of the client for their piercing. I don’t typically pierce with gold pieces brought in from a jeweler or otherwise as they tend to often be stamped on the wearing surface and of the wrong shape/size. Autoclaving regular gold under 18K can turn it black and murky.
Palladium alloyed gold is going to be much more biocompatible than nickel-based gold and harder as well. It actually works nicely in body piercing.

A gold anchor is going to be much more expensive and completely unnecessary. Once it’s in there you’ll never see it again! Anatometal does make nice 18k gold discs for the tops of surface bars and anchors that could definitely give you the look you’re going for.

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