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In January 2003, Canadian Brent Moffat set the World Record for most body piercings in one session (700 piercings with 18g surgical needles in 1 session of 7 hours, using play piercing where the skin is pierced and sometimes jewelry is inserted, which is worn temporarily). [99] In December of the same year, Moffat had 900 piercings in 4½ hours ...
These include the tragus piercing, antitragus piercing, rook piercing, industrial piercing, helix piercing, orbital piercing, daith piercing, and conch piercing. In addition, earlobe stretching , while common in indigenous cultures for thousands of years, began to appear in Western society in the 1990s, and is now fairly common.
No o-rings are needed to keep the plug in the piercing, but the fistula needs to be wide enough to accommodate the flare when the plug is initially put in. A single flared plug has one flared end, usually worn on the front of the piercing, and one end with no flare. The no flare end is held in place by an o-ring and may or may not be grooved.
Doctors share the potential causes, medical treatments, home remedies, and tips for preventing infected ear piercings, including the type of piercing to avoid.
Orbital piercing, second from the top. An orbital piercing is a combination of two ear piercings connected by one piece of jewelry. [1] [2] While usually located in the helix region of the ear, an orbital piercing can be done anywhere on the body including the earlobes. [3]
Stretching, in the context of body piercing, is the deliberate expansion of a healed piercing for the purpose of wearing certain types of jewelry. Ear piercings are the most commonly stretched piercings, [1] with nasal septum piercings, tongue piercings and lip piercings/lip plates following close behind. [2]
Industrial piercings first appeared in the early 1990s when they were first invented by Erik Dakota along with the Daith piercing and Rook piercing. [1] The first reference to the industrial piercing was in a 1992 edition of Body Play magazine, which referred to this piercing as the “industrial ear project."