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Summary: The risks of tongue piercings include infection of the pierced area, numbing of the entire tongue and chipping of the teeth. Weigh the risks of getting a tongue piercing with tips from a licensed piercer in this free video on body modification.
Tristan McCauley has been piercing for two years after a 9-month apprenticeship under Brian Price, a 12 year veteran in the craft. Since he began piercing, TMcCauley has performed...read more
"Hi, I'm Tristan McCauly from Lucky Seven Tattoo and I'm here to talk to you about just a few tongue piercing risks. To keep the tongue free from infection and to keep it clean, the first thing you do not want to use alcohol or hydrogen peroxide. This can cause serious injury to the area and irritate the crap out of it. What you should use is maybe an alcohol free mouthwash. You can get them at most drug stores or convenience stores. Another thing is a saline solution. Something like H2 Ocean or Blue Wave. You can also make it at home with sea salt. Just take a tablespoon of sea salt and dilute it in a quarter cup of water. Just boil the water, let that dilute a little bit, cool it, and just swish around with it. Some of the risks you have are infection which is pretty common. It just comes from not taking care of it, playing with it too much, exchanging bodily fluids too early, things like that. Another one is you can chip your teeth pretty badly if you don't watch out. They now make these little soft caps you can put on them to keep from irritating your teeth as much. Another thing is if it's pierced incorrectly, it can kind of numb your tongue for a little while, it can irritate it and it usually takes a while to heal if it's pierced improperly. Another thing is it will swell quite a bit and if your jewelry is too short, then it'll put too much pressure on that jewelry and it might suck the balls in. Another thing is you could bite down on the jewelry if it's too short and it won't be able to heal properly. With it being too short, it'll hold in any of the secretions your body wants to naturally release. So you want to make sure your jewelry is of the right length. A safe bet is twice the thickness of your tongue. Some people swell twice as much, some people not that much, but just to be on the safe side, you want to have a pretty long bar bell for that. Your tongue should be fully healed in six to eight weeks if taken care of properly. If not, it could be a bit longer. But these are just some of the risks of tongue piercings."
eHow Article: Tongue Piercing Risks
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