Daith Piercing

A Daith Piercing is a bridge in the horizontal and inward bulging of the ear and thus a special form of the ear hole.

History and culture

The Daith it is a piercing which is only in the 1990s, spread with the increasing popularization of body piercings as fashion jewelry.

The term "Daith" derives from the Hebrew word Daath (knowledge) from. The word goes back to the Da'at, a concept from the Kabbalah, the mystical tradition of Judaism and refers to a member of the Sephiroth, the ten divine emanations.

A customer of the U.S. piercers Erik Dakota from California, should have given the piercing, which it developed jointly with Dakota, that name. The name alludes to the fact that implementing special ability and skill are required. To motivate the customer to have to bite this piercing, and spiritual reasons were given with reference to Hinduism.

Together with the Apadydoe, the Rook and the Industrial piercing, which will also go back to Dakota, the Daith piercing first time in 1992 in Body Play magazine Fakir Musafar was publicly presented.

Implementation and healing

As with other piercings, it is first disinfected by the stabbing of skin. Then, if appropriate inputs and Ausstischstellen be marked with a pin and pierced a special needle. Thus, the areas surrounding cartilage of the ear are not violated, is often a curved needle used.

Alternatively, use a so-called Receiving Tube Piercer, a usually made of stainless steel protection tube. This is held against the underside of the piercing point to, so that the first needle pierced through the cartilage, and can then slide into the tube without damaging surrounding tissue.

As with other piercings in the cartilage often the punching is recommended to facilitate the healing process. In this case, the tissue is not pierced but stamped out in order to avoid the pressure used by the jewelry can be applied to the permanent cartilage tissue.

A real Daith piercing loud Fakir Musafar must be placed so that it gives the visual impression that it was going to connect directly to the lower part of the used ring jewelry from the ear canal. For use a very small ball closure ring or barbell is suitable, even micro-BCR or micro-called Barbel. Because of the very small and narrow body piercing requires special sensitivity.

The piercing is one of the painful cartilage piercings with a potentially longer healing phase due to the relatively fixed cartilage tissue at this point.

The healing time is between three and six months.

Variations

Unlike many other piercings is the stretching a Daith uncommon and often not possible because it is too small anatomical region.

For more piercings in the ear are the Tragus, Rook, Snug, Conch and Helix Piercing