The following article deals primarily with ear piercing in an adult. The writer would like to share with her readers a few tidbits about the piercing of an infant’s ears. A mother who has chosen to give her infant daughter some pierced ears should understand the difficulties she is facing. An infant puts his or her hands in many places. An infant could well play with a new ear stud. That act of playing with the ear stud could well lead to the removal of the stud. In that case, the infant’s mother would need to schedule another visit to the office of the physician who has performed the piercing procedure.

An article about ear piercing locations might include lots of information about the safest ear piercing facilities. By the same token, such an article could also focus on the spots where a piercing specialist might put a small ear stud. This article will review the conventional and unconventional locations for any stud that is meant to be placed in a
pierced ear.

Convention has dictated the placement of an ear stud in the ear lobe. Yet the piercing of an ear does not need to occur in that one spot. Some people ask to have their ears pierced in the helix, the curled ridge on each ear’s outer edge. Other people request to have a piercing on the rook or daith of the ear. Those two spots are found on the tragus, the cartilage that covers a portion of the entrance to the ear canal.

Anyone who requests an ear piercing should keep in mind the typical goal of those who get such a piercing. A pierced ear provides the possessor of the ear with a place to put lovely ear accessories. Those accessories must have a clean and suitable “hole.” To that end, the person who hopes to have pierced ears must choose the implement that seems best able to insure creation of a functional hole for any selected ear accessories.

Some piercing specialists use a piercing gun. Other piercing specialists use a piercing needle. For reasons of sterility, a needle is a far safer choice than a piercing gun. The piercing needle is a metal implement. The piercing gun contains a lot of plastic, making it the wrong sort of instrument for sterilization in an autoclave.

Moreover, the questionably sterile piercing gun puts a hole in the ear’s cartilage by pushing through that cartilage. By contrast, the piercing needle slices into that same cartilage. The rapid piercing achieved with a needle gives any possible bacteria slight chance to enter the pierced region. If, however, a piercing gun pushes on the ear cartilage, bacteria from that gun could well choose to live in the newly pierced region.
 
Whether a piercing specialist uses a gun or a needle to put a hole in a client’s ear, the client needs to give his or her pierced ears the proper sort of aftercare. That aftercare should include washing of the ears with a solution of salty water. During that washing routine the person with the newly pierced ears needs to have very clean fingers and hands. 

The importance of clean hands must never be forgotten. The most beautiful of ear accessories could cause the formation of an inflamed ear, if it were placed in a pierced hole by fingers that had not been cleaned of dirt and bacteria.