Surface

Cleaning according to General cleaning procedure, saline + Octenisept spray

This is the type of piercing generally done on the flat surface of the body, which makes it prone for rejection. Sometimes migration or rejection happen years after the procedure.

The only adequate jewelry for this type of piercing is the surface bar angled at 90 degrees as shown in the image.

Depending on the body part, surface jewelry can be longer or shorter. With longer bars (e.g. for sternum or nape), the body takes longer for piercing canal to epithelize (new skin layer to be created inside it).
Piercing canal that is too long (over 25 mm) can cause some complications due to excess of dead cell tissue in the middle. This problem can be solved with regular drainage, but when possible complications are taken into consideration - if you wish for discs (external parts of the jewelry) to be more than 2 cm apart, choosing two microdermals is a better and more sustainable option.

Surface piercing was in use far more often before the microdermals but now we wouldn't recommend it for certain parts of the body (e.g. hip piercings) because it heals with difficulty and gets rejected fairly easily. Positions it can be successful in: nape, sternum, surface tragus, vertical bridge, lip surface.
In surface piercings (surface and microdermal) there is no 100-percent-guarantee for long term success. Their lifespan depends the position, skin firmness, jewelry, care, accidents, etc.