How long will it take a recently-pierced ear to close up?

What did they tell you at the place where you got your ears pierced?

@Trillian They told me how long it would take the piercing to heal. I know it takes less time for a recently pierced hole to close up, so that’s why I’m asking, because it doesn’t seem like the same thing.

It should close and be healed in 2–3 weeks.

Yeah, ok. Sorry, totally different thing and though 3 weeks is the standard answer, you may get away with re-piercing sooner. Check with the shop. You wouldn’t want the holes to overlap and be longer on one side.

Remove the plug immediately. It should heal up in a couple weeks at the longest. Then ask how soon you can get a new piercing. Don’t try to make it a shorter process than it is. Be patient.

Very fast if it was just done today. Within 10 days most likely. It will heal like any cut. I decided to let a second hole close within a few days of piercing and you would never know I had one. The hole in the other ear, which I used for several years, I only put an earing in about every 5 years now, and it is always open, that little tiny hole.

I would wait a month to repierce.