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Migration or rejection. 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.
How long does it take for your belly piercing hole to close?
To keep the piercing tract open, you can replace this jewelry with a piece of safe, inert plastic known as a piercing retainer. You can also leave the piercing empty. However, this may cause the hole to close. It can take anywhere from nine months to a year for a belly button piercing to fully heal.
What to do if helix piercing falls out?
If you aren’t able to get the jewellery in by yourself, go back to your piercing shop. If the hole is still there your piercing artist can use a taper to reopen the piercing and insert the jewellery. Don’t put off visiting your piercing artist. If the hole completely heals, you will lose the piercing.
Is it bad to take out a new belly button piercing?
If you’ve waited the proper amount of time, three months to one year, and you don’t have an infection, scabbing, or pus, it should be okay to remove the jewelry. It should also be pretty easy to remove the belly ring and change it out for a new one as long as the inner tunnel has healed up nicely.
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.
What happens if you take a piercing out before it heals?
You should only switch into new earrings AFTER the healing period. If you take your earrings out for any length of time during the healing period, the holes may close or you may find it difficult to re-insert earrings into a piercing hole that has not fully healed.