Gold belly button bars

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Gold is a beautiful metal for use in jewelry and has an old tradition.

When using gold for piercings, a lower purity than 14 or 18 carat is not recommended. Gold should not be used in healing piercings.

Gold is easily scratched. These scratches can irritate the body in new piercings. Tongue bars and rings in gold are not recommended as chewing or biting on the balls is common. This makes the balls full of scratches and flaws.

For body piercing and a gold alloy is used, the most common being 14k, with 24k being entirely pure. 18k gold contains 75% gold and 25% copper and silver. Traces of other metals may also be present. In lower quality gold, zinc and nickel can also be found.

Gold body jewelry should never be used in healing piercings as body fluids tends to discolour the metal and cause it to "bleed". Allergy to gold is uncommon but it does exist, and then mostly from white gold body jewelry.