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Clean your piercing regularly for the first few weeks. Cleaning your piercing on a regular basis will help stimulate healing and prevent an infection. As a result, you should use a saline solution on your ears every day, and clean your piercing with soap as needed (once a day at most) for the 4-6 week healing period.
The healing time for a body piercing can vary depending on which part of your body is pierced and how well you look after it. As a general guide, healing times for the most common body piercings can be: 1  ear lobe â six to eight weeks. 2  top of the ear â six to eight weeks.