Surgical Steel Body Piercing Stretching Threaded Tapers. You only get the taper the barbell does not come with it. Sterilized Surgical Stainless Steel 316L stretching Threaded tapers for piercings, That is the smallest taper you can get and if you had a healed piercing in the past and you want it back, so you can use the this threaded taper to open the piercing. Very rarely healed piercing will close it will only shrink, just like if you have a ear lobe pierced and you take it out for months or year then you do not pierce the lobe again you just push the stud back and here you go it is open, The body piercing works just like that but most people think it is closed and they go to the piercer and the piercer will never tell you it is open because the piercer wants the money. In my 25 plus years of piercing I hardly ever re pierce anyone just taper the piercing and and shock the customer because the piercing was open. The best way to open the piercing is take  a hot shower first then lube the 18g taper which starts at the end which is 20g and work with it and you will see the piercing is open. If you had 14g piercing then you have to buy the 16g and 14g tapers too so you can stretch it to the 14g. This threaded taper You do not have to hold the taper in one hand and the taper in other hand and try to slide in the piercing , this threaded taper you can use the internally threaded barbell and just slide the taper and once the barbell comes out you just unthread the taper and screw the ball...