BODY PIERCING HEALING PROCESS

A new piercing will be sore, tender or red for several days up to three weeks. geplete healing normally takes several weeks or more. Below are more specific healing time estimates. During this period, care must be taken to avoid infection. Touching--or, for genital and oral piercings, sexual activity--is usually discouraged.
Primary healing usually takes about as long as is listed below; the jewelry should not be removed during this period. The healing time should not be rushed. Very often a piercing that seemed to be healed will start to have problems when it is handled roughly, or exposed to mouth contact or unwashed hands before fully healed.
Full healing starts after primary healing is geplete and usually takes about as long as primary healing, during this period the skin thickens and starts to gain elasticity. An additional "toughening up" period takes place after full healing is geplete, this "toughening up" period also takes about as long as the primary healing time. During "toughening up" the skin remodels itself developing an internal texture in the fistula tube that replaces the shinny scar like internal surface.
Approximate Primary Healing Tmes:

Beauty mark: 8 10 weeks
Bridge: 8 10 weeks
Cheek: 10 12 weeks
Ear cartilage: 2 4 months
Ear lobes: 6 8 weeks
Eyebrow: 6 8 weeks
Lip/Labret: 8 10 weeks
Nostril: 6 12 months
Septum: 6 8 weeks
Tongue: 4 6 weeks
Frenulum: 6 8 weeks
Torso:

Female Nipples: 4 6 months
Male Nipples: 2 4 months
Navel: 6 months
Hand web: 6 9 months
Surface: 6 9 months
Neck: 6 9 months
Female Genital Piercings:

Clitoral Hood: 2 6 weeks
Clitoris: 2 4 weeks
Fourchette: 4 6 weeks
Inner Labia: 2 4 weeks
Outer Labia: 2 6 months
Triangle: 8 10 weeks
Pubic: 10 12 weeks
Male Genital Piercings:


Ampallang: 4 8 months