Tongue Piercing with Toothbrush: Get Oral Hygiene to Next Level
Pierce Your Tongue with a Toothbrush for Good Oral Hygiene?
Tongue piercing has long been a thing that dentists do not recommend patients to have.
First, if it’s a metal ring, tongue piercing frequently leads to tooth chipping due to accidental biting on the piercing. This means more fillings and restorative work (and possibly replacement of porcelain crown if procelain gets chipped off). Ultimately, this translates to more dental treatment and more expenses.
Second, the metal piercing will interfere the quality of x-ray film. When taking a panorex, patient is advised to remove necklace and earrings, because they can obscure the anatomical structures. Now, to ask the patient to remove the tongue ring may be something s/he doesn’t like. As soon as the ring is removed, the pierced hole may be closed in a few seconds, minutes, or hours, depending on individual cases. Once the hole is closed, patient will have to re-do the piercing if s/he insists having a tongue piercing still…
Third, tongue piercing is getting fancier and fancier, and the material used to make the metal ring may be questionable and possibly hazardous to health. When people get their tongue pierced, they seldom inquire into the exact constituents of the ring, and the tongue piercing service providers probably don’t have the material specification either. Well, if you don’t know what it is, then don’t put it inside your mouth—simple as that. 
Now, how about a toothbrush piercing?? 
On the surface, one may think it’s a cool idea and toothbrush piercing will help clean the teeth. Well, on the second thought, this is probably not the case. First, the pierce is small. How effective will its cleansing ability be? Second, the pierce itself can actually become a breeding ground for bacteria and plaque build-up. So, it creates more problems at the end. 
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micho said,
April 13, 2007
omg give it a rest, yeah ive bit of a bit of my tooth this friday 13th but thats nothing the dentist cant fix. and for all the talk about infections and loss of tase.. omg. you have to be an real idiot if you cant manage to clean your piercing good enough. its easy to clean with mouth wash and so on.
so if anyone thinking of piercing him/herself. just go to a proffesional and DO IT. follow the cleaning directions and youll be just fine.
carly luna said,
April 30, 2007
kayla said,
July 17, 2007
aww dude that is so cool maby you can keep your teeth cleaner
i want to go and get my toung pirsed now
i wonder if it herts
britt said,
October 18, 2007
omgsh! great idea!
i would deff. use that.
i was worried about my teeth
gettin damaged but i would
love to use this!
kandie said,
March 14, 2008
oh good god! if you don’t bite down on the metal and you are careful when you eat or do what ever….you won’t chip your teeth!. i have had mine for a year and a half and i haven’t had any problems with it….
and YES kayla….it does hurt!!! mine didn’t hurt when they first pierced it but once the numbing stuff and my adreneline wore off….holy cow i was in pain for a while. my tongue was swollen for 2 months. but it may be different for other people. i wouldn’t get mine done again but i am also not taking it out to grow over. did that once for less than 24 hours and it grew over about half way. no matter how long you have your piercing, and you take it out….it will grow over.