The Benefits of Buying Titanium Navel Rings

With issues like health, safety and comfort to think of when considering what type of navel ring to wear, one of the materials that constantly comes up as a leading choice is titanium. But what is it that makes titanium such a good choice as a navel ring - and as a first navel ring in particular?

Titanium is a biocompatible metal that is FDA approved fro use as a reliable material for surgical implants and implements. In other words, it's safe to stick bits of it in your body and leave it there. It's a metal that will not be rejected by the body and one of its inherent properties is to osseointegrate which means that body tissue will grow or use it as an anchor to grow as if it were bone. All of this means that titanium is a safe material to use as a piercing medium and you are likely to experience a faster healing time with lower chances of complications such as infection.

Further properties particular to titanium make it a suitable navel ring material. Titanium has the highest strength-to-weight ratio of any metal. This ensures that titanium navel rings are comfortable to wear, almost to the point of forgetting that it is there, but it is also very durable. So when you give it a solid whack because you forgot it was there, the chances are that the navel ring won't end up being a broken navel ring.

To get into the technical terminology for the type of titanium that makes the most appropriate navel ring material, the surgical implant grade of titanium is known under a few names. It may by simply called Grade 23 Titanium, alternatively it will be known as Titanium-6Aluminum-4Vanadium ELI (Extra Low Interstitial) Alloy for Surgical Implants (Ti6Al4V) or you may hear it referred to by its standard specification code of ASTM F-136. Whichever one of these refers to the highest grade of titanium and you're buying a very safe product.

But I know a lot of you are thinking "Enough of the technical jargon, I just want to know whether titanium looks any good." Fair enough, too. The great news is that titanium excels in the looks department too with a highly lustrous quality that makes it very pleasing to the eye. The polished white titanium is a striking effect but it can also be anodized in black which gives the navel ring another elegant look.

Naturally titanium can be used in every popular form of navel ring whether it's a captive bead ring, a barbell or a spiral twister navel ring so no matter what type of navel ring you are after, you will have the opportunity of getting one in what must be considered the safest material possible.