I thought my ear would be too dumb, and my cheek is less sensitive than the rest of my mouth and nose, for some reason.

Is it, like, right in the middle of your cheek though? (pix plx)

Doc, I am a facial piercing fanatic. I have 9 and I don't wear piercings anymore. Here is the best advice I ever got. Mix 3 tablespoons of sea salt with 1 gallon of distilled water. It has to be sea salt and it has to be distilled water. Sea salt is in someway a natural thing in healing (i forget how) and distilled water doesn't have all the junk in it. It will heal naturally, not fast though. You don't want fast. It will cause scaring and mess the hole up ever so slightly.

Oh for a huge magnet. :(

We discussed this before. Magnets won't work.

unless they have a nickel allergy

You're thinking of Mexicans.

I have a piercing about an inch away from the side of my mouth, and I put a fish hook (that hasn't been used and I cleaned it, of course) into it, and I think it looks sorta cool. Besides, I can take it out.
I'll post a pic when I get my camera working again; it went kaput after I took it through the aquifer caves. Great pics, though, but that's for another thread someday.