titanium ear posts

[achillea]

Hi

I'm looking for pure titanium ear posts with different pad sizes.  I'm just wondering why yours have stainless steel posts and not titanium?  As far as I understand stainless steel contains nickel and I'm looking for high quality nickel free posts (preferably all titanium).  Can you supply?

many thanks
Lisa

[mar-clar]

Hello,

We currently stock four styles of Titanium Flat-Pad Posts : 31-000 (10mm pad), 31-004 (4mm), 31-006 (6mm) and 31-008 (8mm).
All of these items have a raw Titanium post which is Nickel free as well as a Nickle free Surgical Stainless Steel pad.
These items are Superior Quality in manufacture and made in the USA.
I hope these items will work for your needs.

[Russ Nobbs]

Right, the post is titanium while the glue on pad is stainless.

I must admit I don't know the specific reason the pad is stainless instead of also being titanium. It may be that a spot welded post to pad is less secure than the swadged version with stainless???

Stainless steel does contain nickel but the availability of nickel ions at the surface is very small. The darker colored "Euro standard nickel free" stainless also contains nickel in the alloy but the bio-availability of the nickel ions on the surface is even less.