Retainers

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Friday January 16th, 2009 @ 8:10 PM

Filed under: Piercing

I am having a problem with my boss. He thinks customers can use retainers (we offer acrylic) after 24 - 48 hours. I say 3 - 4 weeks. How long would you recommend people wait to use retainers?

3-4 weeks from the piercing date? That’s pretty soon to change jewelry in a fresh piercing.
I don’t like acryllic in a piercing ever. Implant grade jewelry is the only thing I offer at my shop to wear in a piercing. If my clients need a retainer, I suggest they wear a glass one.

If someone were to want to wear a retainer, depending on the piercing, I would ask they wait at least 6-8 weeks from the initial piercing time. In some cases, certain piercings just cannot be switched in and out constantly anyway and the piercing may end up needing to be retired from the irritation of being constantly changed of jewelry for work, sports*, etc.

*in the case of sports, most piercings vs. athletics do not fare well and shouldn’t be worn anyway. If it has to happen, bandaging the piercing down with it’s original jewelry in it is a safer alternative than wearing glass. Obviously.

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