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Titanium standards: why not G23?

March 21, 2022February 4, 2011 by Brian Skellie

Please stop referring to body jewelry materials by overly vague and inappropriate standards. Using the term G23 for body jewelry materials is too superficial, and is not an implant standard.

Categories Body Art, Health & Medical, Jewelry, Standards Tags ASTM, body jewelry, quality, science, standards 37 Comments

Body jewelry hall of shame

April 12, 2013February 4, 2011 by Brian Skellie

Over the years I’ve collected images to witness some of the unsafe jewelry found on the market. Here are a few I hope will be educational to help avoid future problems.

Categories Jewelry, Standards Tags body jewelry, education, quality, science 2 Comments

Study finds biofilm on externally threaded body jewelry

March 21, 2022January 9, 2011 by Brian Skellie
Externally threaded compared with internally threaded body jewelry thanks to Brian McRorie Joel Burgess from Planet Three Piercing

A study inadvertently proves that externally threaded jewelry can harbor bacterial colonies in biofilm.

Categories Body Art, Health & Medical, Infection Control, Interesting, Jewelry, Piercing, Scientastic Tags body jewelry, Ideas, medicine, surface finish, threads 2 Comments
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