When you have a lip piercing, what causes skin tissue inside of your mouth to grow over the piercing?

Question

Is this a bad thing when this happens? How do you prevent the skin tissue in mouth from growing over the flat part of bar bell inside your mouth? Please help as I had to get rid of piercing and would love to have it back :(!

Answer 1

The skin will only 'grow over' if the bar is too short to accomodate the swelling and will therefore embed in your lip, if it starts to embed, see your piercer immediately and have them put in a longer bar, embedding is a painfull process and even more painful to fix as it involves cutting of the lip to pop the disk out from under the skin.

Answer 2

Katlynn is wrong. I had a libret piercing and I twisted it and did what I was supposed to and the skin still grew over it. I ended up just biting on it until it went away.





You'd have to have a loop instead of a ball when you first get it pierced. Then after it heals completely, you could start using the ball stud.

Answer 3

sounds like too short a post on the jewellery was used. all piercings swell at first, if the jewellery is too short then the swollen skin will swallow up the jewellery.

give your lip a couple of months to fully heal, then go find a piercer who knows what they are doing and get it done properly

Answer 4

you have to twist the piercing regularly like an ear piercing the pervert that from happening



once its already happened I'm not sure

Answer 5

it probably because it was swollen. i'd continue to clean it the way they tell you to and you'll be fine