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Fresh belly piercings tend to close quickly. If you’ve had one for years, it can close in a few weeks, but for some people it can take longer. Make sure you clean the area regularly until it’s fully healed. If you want to keep your piercing for the long term, put jewelry in it all the time.
If your piercing has fully healed, yet you choose to remove the belly button ring, the hole might close. To prevent this, you can re-insert the piercing and move it around a couple of times a week. This helps keep the hole open. If this doesn’t work, you may have to re-pierce your belly button after having the baby.
Will a belly button piercing close up after 10 years?
If you remove the piercing and leave it out for 10 years overtime the skin will come together and close the hole, it will leave a permanent mark but the hole will close and you won’t be able to put the ring back in unless you repierce it.
Will my belly button piercing close after 5 years?
Answer: Will my navel piercing hole close over? If you still have a piercing hole after five years then its very unlikely it will now close. The hole has formed a “scar” and is now lined with skin keeping the tract open.
If you realize right away that your new notch is not for you, it’s likely to close on its own. “When you get a piercing, it takes four to six weeks for it to heal up, after which time the hole can be permanent,” says New York dermatologist Joshua Zeichner, MD.
In recent years, it’s become a popular cosmetic surgery. The goal of umbilicoplasty is to give the bellybutton a more vertical shape instead of a horizontal one. It’s usually considered by women after pregnancy or people who have scarring from an old bellybutton piercing.
How much is a belly piercing removal?
You would have a little scar, but the hole would be gone. You’re correct in surmising this would be cosmetic, a treatment insurance would not pay for. The cost for this procedure is between $400 and $600.
Can you reconstruct a belly button?
Depending on your case, he may remove excess fat, tissue, and skin from the area around the navel to reconstruct and reshape the belly button to your desired appearance. Although umbilicoplasty is often performed in conjunction with other surgeries like a tummy tuck or mommy makeover, it can be performed alone.
Can you get rid of old piercing holes?
“The only way to improve it would be a surgery to remove the excess skin. It is the same concept behind repairing a torn earlobe.” If you don’t have a gaping hole but have developed a large scar — say on your belly button, like our elevator pal — a dermatologist can give you cortisone injections to make it smaller.