Some piercings naturally heal better than others. Lip, Tongue, Labret, and other oral piercings tend to heal a lot quicker than things such as cartilage or surface piercings. With any piercing, the longer you have it and keep jewelry in it, the longer it will take to close.
If a piercing is fully healed, you’ve had the jewelry in place for longer than a year, and you take the jewelry out, chances are very good that the hole will shrink, but not close completely and look as if it were never there. You will likely always see a small divot where the jewelry was placed in the skin.
One benefit of being able to see the divot is that, if you change your mind and want to wear jewelry again, you may be able to have the piercing tapered open, and
put your jewelry back in. We strongly recommend you see a piercer to taper your piercing back open, as sometimes (as in the case of oral piercings) one side of the piercing can stay open, while the other side closes completely.
If you get pierced, and decide in the first several weeks that you simply don’t like the piercing, removing the jewelry may leave less of a scar, and the piercing may heal completely closed. If you change your mind, and want the area repierced, there is usually no problem doing so, as long as you allow several weeks for the area to completely close and heal.
