Hitting the ear screen as referred to the ear screen piercing, this operation will mostly produce pain, but the subjective degree of pain is related to the instruments and techniques of ear piercing, and the sensitivity of the person being hit to pain.
1. Instruments and techniques of ear piercing: how to anesthetize the surface properly before piercing the ear, using sharp instruments to operate quickly, often the stimulation of local sensory nerves will be relatively small, the effect of time is also shorter, the degree of pain caused by the lesser degree of pain, otherwise the pain will be more pronounced.
2. The pain sensitivity of the person being hit: if the person being hit is sensitive to pain stimulation, even if the slight trauma stimulation, will feel obvious pain, and some people here the nerve sensitivity is lower, or better pain tolerance, but also in the hole in the pain is not significant.
Piercing on the ear screen will damage the cartilage of the ear screen, and there is a possibility of causing purulent chondritis and scarring. Therefore, ear piercing in areas containing cartilage is not advocated.