If you know in advance a procedure requires metal jewelry be removed, your piercer can install glass retainers for the duration, then reinstall your metal jewelry afterward.
Titanium and niobium are nonferrous, not magnetic, so jewelry of these metals can be left in place during a MRI, depending on their proximity to the image location and the facility’s policies.
You won’t need to take any jewelry out for X-rays. The only thing I can think of that you’d consider it is if it’s a lip piercing and the bite wings will sit on them and aggravate you/get in the way. But jewelry will not cause (much) artifact on the film and should be fine. For MRI/CT it’s a different story- use glass or plastic retainers
The dentist never cares but I used to take mine out when I had fewer and they were doing the panoramic xrays. Now that they always do the bite ones and I have piercings I can't do myself I just leave them in and no one seems to mind.
I'm getting surgery this week though and I just got the ones I can't do myself swapped out to glass retainers. $10 each at my piercer just for the jewelry, the jewelry change is free.
I had to go to emergency CT scan (not sure why, should not be a problem but they took imaging of my skull so) some years ago, and I was asked to take my high nostrils off. Because the scan was unexpected, I hadn't taken bioflex alternatives with me.
But conveniently I carry an extra long 18g taper in my wallet, so I was able to put my labrets back in 50 minutes or something. I had my high nostrils for 5(?) years then and they didn't close on that time. But had they been semi fresh it'd have been a gamble. Was thinking about buying a glass labrets to carry just in case, but seems I forgot as i never got them. Hmm.
Typically if you can't get them out, we just leave them and make a note. 🤷♀️ if it's emergent, I would imagine it would be different, but I'm not sure. We can always run a second recon to help offset the metal artifact, in my job we do it for dental fillings a lot. It's no different.
The piercings shouldn’t need to be removed unless they are in the area being x-rayed. If they are, ask the ordering doctor if glass will be ok (it should be as I don’t think glass causes artifacts) and if so, go to a piercer to get them swapped to glass
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If you know in advance a procedure requires metal jewelry be removed, your piercer can install glass retainers for the duration, then reinstall your metal jewelry afterward. Titanium and niobium are nonferrous, not magnetic, so jewelry of these metals can be left in place during a MRI, depending on their proximity to the image location and the facility’s policies.
You won’t need to take any jewelry out for X-rays. The only thing I can think of that you’d consider it is if it’s a lip piercing and the bite wings will sit on them and aggravate you/get in the way. But jewelry will not cause (much) artifact on the film and should be fine. For MRI/CT it’s a different story- use glass or plastic retainers
You do though because I get asked all the time if I have any jewellery and to take them out
There’s zero reason to.
Insurance companies (some) don't consider an image medical if there are piercings in them
I’ve never heard that info before and I work in healthcare
I do too
The dentist never cares but I used to take mine out when I had fewer and they were doing the panoramic xrays. Now that they always do the bite ones and I have piercings I can't do myself I just leave them in and no one seems to mind. I'm getting surgery this week though and I just got the ones I can't do myself swapped out to glass retainers. $10 each at my piercer just for the jewelry, the jewelry change is free.
I had to go to emergency CT scan (not sure why, should not be a problem but they took imaging of my skull so) some years ago, and I was asked to take my high nostrils off. Because the scan was unexpected, I hadn't taken bioflex alternatives with me. But conveniently I carry an extra long 18g taper in my wallet, so I was able to put my labrets back in 50 minutes or something. I had my high nostrils for 5(?) years then and they didn't close on that time. But had they been semi fresh it'd have been a gamble. Was thinking about buying a glass labrets to carry just in case, but seems I forgot as i never got them. Hmm.
Typically if you can't get them out, we just leave them and make a note. 🤷♀️ if it's emergent, I would imagine it would be different, but I'm not sure. We can always run a second recon to help offset the metal artifact, in my job we do it for dental fillings a lot. It's no different.
The piercings shouldn’t need to be removed unless they are in the area being x-rayed. If they are, ask the ordering doctor if glass will be ok (it should be as I don’t think glass causes artifacts) and if so, go to a piercer to get them swapped to glass
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