To provide safe and effective care for patients with body piercings, nurses must become more knowledgeable about this increasingly common practice. Competent nursing care is more than simply ...

At 50, a Houlton woman traded 19 years as a dog breeder to train as a body piercer for her daughter’s tattoo business.

a 2021 study also found that cartilage piercings come with one of the highest rates of infection of any body piercings. According to Suzanne Friedler, MD, a board-certified dermatologist at ...

CEO and founder, Louisa Schneider, started Rowan based on her own personal experience ... receive in-depth training on piercing the ear − since that's the only body part customers can get ...

Missouri law defines body piercing as “the perforation of human tissue other than an ear for a nonmedical purpose.” Not all tattoo parlors in Missouri will tattoo minors, and many that do have ...

Munro, personal communication ... The offending object, in this case the piercing hardware, is walled off from the body with necrotic tissue. The hardware is then pushed out of the body laterally.