Piercing Problems: Piercing Scars

Piercing Problems Piercing ScarsPiercing scars are a common piercing problem. Unlike other issues with piercings that typically affect new piercings in healing, scars can happen at any time.

Actually, many scars develop on healed piercings or even after the piercing is retired.

For this reason, it’s important to keep monitoring your piercing even after it’s healed.

Many people believe that piercing scars are always complicated and difficult to heal, or that they always lead to piercing retirement. While some scars are more complex than the others, keep in mind that there are scars that can be healed successfully. It is therefore vital to treat any problem as soon as it appears.

Types of Piercing Scars

There are two main types of piercing scars: hypertrophic and keloid scars. There is another type that some people don’t count as scars (atrophic scars) but … read more