For some, the oral piercing may look cool, while for others, it becomes a reason for pain and suffering. "If it is done in a proper way, following the protocol, it might not affect oral health. But if ...

These days, it's not uncommon to come across people who have modified their bodies in one way or another. There are people who prefer to do something simple like getting a helix ear piercing and there ...

Tongue piercing was a ritual tradition of the Maya and the Aztecs, ancient and -- apparently -- gap-toothed peoples. Now the dental cause and effect has been established: Those who choose to pierce ...

Doctors are warning that tongue piercings could lead to fatal infections, after a 22-year-old Israeli man died in hospital weeks after getting his tongue pierced. Although this is a rare case, oral ...

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 ...

Zara Tindall had a tongue piercing as a teenager in the late ’90s but didn’t break any royal rules by doing it. A former palace butler revealed his excitement about seeing the piercing in person and ...

CHICAGO – 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 ...

Dear Gary: I am writing with the permission of my parents, and I hope you will help convince my parents that it is safe and OK for me to get my tongue pierced. I am 16 years old, a good student and do ...

With a million other things going on right now, taking care of a healing piercing is the last thing you want to worry about. As most people with piercings know, different piercings cause different ...

Even in the cleanest, safest piercing studios, piercers have seen things that would make anyone’s stomach turn. Think severely infected jewelry, piercings filled with pus, piercings lost in someone’s ...

It’s karaoke night at Hennessey’s Tavern in Pacific Beach, and Erin Grimmer is feeding ice cubes to her pet plant. The plant is named Phyl, short for prophylactic, since they found him next to the ...