Share on Pinterest For a dermal piercing, your piercer will create one small hole so that an “anchor” can be inserted into the middle layer (dermis) of your skin. The base of the anchor is ...

The “ring” is placed with a dermal anchor. Unlike traditional piercings that go in one side and exit the other, to place a dermal stud, piercers must first remove a circle of skin with a ...

So, what are dermal piercings? "I usually refer to them as 'surface anchors,'" Tom Gottschalk, a piercer at Dorje Adornments in Rochester, NY, tells POPSUGAR. "They can go in most places that have ...

For those who are still unclear as to what a dermal piercing is, BootsWebMD describes dermal anchors as, "...a cross between an implant and a piercing. They allow body decoration in areas that ...