About 20 percent of body piercings result in bacterial infections, according to a paper published by Dr. Anne Laumann, chief of dermatology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in ...

You’re near death. Tongue hanging out. Saliva dripping to the floor. Too much to drink? Rat poison? How about Ludwig’s Angina? Your tongue swells to the point that it blocks off your ...

To provide the reader with information to update their knowledge of the complications associated with oral piercings. Modifications of the body including tattooing and body piercing have been ...

New evidence lends further support to the need for dentists to caution patients about the dangers of tongue piercing, which can lead to severe infections, chipped and fractured teeth, gingival ...

Body piercing is popular today in the United States and other western societies. But wearing a tongue stud puts people at risk for chipped teeth, recessed gums, and nerve damage, warns the Academy of ...

Dentists agree: Tongue piercing remains a teen trend, but not always a healthy choice. New research published in the journal of clinical orthodontics reports that many kids with pierced tongues form a ...

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They may seem cool to teenagers and young adults, but having your tongue pierced can be deadly, BBC News reported. A 22-year-old man died of multiple brain abscesses just weeks after piercing his ...

Not long ago, “piercing” meant one hole per earlobe and only in women. Today, both women and men get pierced, and in addition to the ear, other body parts may be pierced for erotic enhancement: the ...

The teenager said the stabbing pains in her face felt like electrical shocks that lasted 10 to 30 seconds and struck 20 to 30 times a day. Her doctors diagnosed trigeminal neuralgia, a nerve disorder ...