Piercing Guns

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Thursday February 26th, 2009 @ 6:25 AM

Filed under: Ear

I know all of the horrible reasons why you should not use a piercing gun, and I agree. But I wanted to know AskBME’s take on the things that are along those lines.

At your local walmart in TX you can have you lobes pierced or buy the supplies, with a disposable thing that is loaded like a gun but is pushed through only with the pressure the person piercing the ear can apply. In essence its just like the gun but not pressure loaded and disposable. So it seems to me that it would be like your friend just pushing a pointed earring through your lobe, only the stuff for this comes out of what looks like steril packages.

Do you think its safe to use something like this on ear lobes?

I’m familiar with what you’re talking about, and in a nutshell, no. I don’t think they’re a great idea. The blunt force of shoving a relatively dull stud made out of cheap materials and held on by a backing that is, essentially, a big petri dish catching all the lymph and muck coming out of the piercing and allowing bacteria to grow while preventing adequate cleaning is never going to trump an asaeptic procedure with sterile needles and highly-polished, implant-grade jewellery, full stop.

Will you DIE from piercing your ears that way? Nope, probably not. But it’s not the safest or best way, IMHO.

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