Scarring and How to Prevent it

Piercing ScarringIn order to understand how scarring forms and how to prevent it, it’s important to understand how tissue heals. When healing occurs, especially in the case of a piercing being closed, it rarely happens in a perfect way. Meaning, the tissue will not match the surrounding tissue perfectly.

There are several things that may happen. It may heal in a different direction than the surrounding tissue. Or it may heal in a different degree of thickness. These things are highly individual and will depend on several factors. You can never predict how a tissue will heal on its own.

Since this process is so unpredictable, you can never tell what the results will be. Since the tissue rarely heal in the way to match the surrounding tissue perfectly it means it will leave a scar. Depending on the way … read more