Embedded Snake Bites (studs)

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Tuesday April 28th, 2009 @ 3:07 PM

Filed under: Lip/Cheek

I got snakebites over a year ago and i was told by the piercer when asked about the skin growing over the back of the disc: “That’s normal, the skin will fall away after a week or so and leave a depression in your lip where the disc will be flush with your lip”

Flash forward a year later, my snake bites are still embedded in my lip. I have tried a few times, different methods of removing them from forcefully pushing on them, cutting my lip, pushing them back and tonguing them for a few days to try and weaken the skin. Nothing has worked.

I want them out. I can’t get a decent job, and frankly they are uneven from being different depths in the back of my lip and it looks ridiculous. I have heard surgery being the only option. Any had this and know how much it costs? What about rejection, is there a way to force rejection out the front without leaving a huge scar on my face?

I am relatively clueless about piercing things, this was my first (And last >:I) piercing ever and i just did what the piercer told me too. If anyone has any ideas on how to remove them (Preferably with as little pain as possible) That would be great.

Freshly pierced labrets (center or off-center alike) can be safely pierced with studs that have extra length to accommodate excess swelling. This will minimize over-swelling and the chance of your disk(s) embedding on the inside of your mouth.

If it got to the point that your jewelry was completely embedded on the inside, it’s unlikely that “the skin [would] fall away after a week”. It sounds as though your labrets have been transformed into a couple deep oral dermal anchors.

At this point you will likely have to have the inside of each piercing lanced to pop the disks out. A surgeon or doctor can do this, but you can also go to a piercer who is experienced with this sort of thing. Cosmetic surgery is expensive, emergency surgery by a doctor may be cheaper. An experienced piercer will likely be even cheaper than that. The procedure should be pretty quick and easy though, regardless of who does it.

Rejection is not a route I would recommend choosing. This would likely do more damage than good.

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