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Piercing in the ear cartilage
The cartilage of the ear offers multiple possebilities to apply a piercing. The most popular are certainly the helix
(in the upper outer cartilage) and the tragus (in the piece of cartilage opposite the aufitory canal).
More possebilities are the industrial (to linked helixes), the conch (in the inner ear cartilage) and the antihelix
(the fold underneath the helix). These piercings need up to half a year for complete healing, this long period is founded by the fact,
that cartilage itself has no own vessels and is supplied by the surrounding tissues.
The care of a cartilage piercings insists on diligence and patience. For four weeks you should avoid sanitary facilities,
solarium and sun taning. Additionally hair styling products habe to be kept away in any case. The piercing is at first quite
sensitive to any kind of pressure, for that reason sleeping on the pierced side shoul be avoided in the first weeks.
In exchange the ear offers countless and charming possebilities to produce decorative piercings.