Doctors share the potential causes, medical treatments, home remedies, and tips for preventing infected ear piercings, ...

Cartilage piercings take longer to heal than soft-tissue piercings through your earlobes or eyebrows. They may take anywhere from 4-12 months to fully heal. These piercings heal from the skin inwards.

Cartilage covers the end of the bones comprising the knee joint. There are 2 types of cartilage in the knee – articular (or chondral) and meniscal. Damage because of injury or disease to a focal area ...

Body piercings are the new norm, and along with that new norm comes the need for a lesson on how to prevent or treat infected piercings. No one wants an infected ear piercing, much less an ...

Increased expression of COX-2 has been demonstrated in cartilage explants. Therefore, it has certainly possible that COX-2 inhibitors may modify and inhibit cartilage metabolism.

There are a few principles in life we can confidentially rely on: 1. The sky is blue. 2. Clouds are white. 3. The sun will rise. 4. If Cara Delevingne is doing something, it must be cool. In this ...

Ear cartilage piercing is inherently more risky than lobe piercing, according to a report in the February 25 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) that looks at an ...