Dental and periodontal complications of lip and tongue piercing: prevalence and influencing factors

A selection of abstracts of clinically relevant papers from other journals. The abstracts on this page have been chosen and edited by John R. Radford. ABSTRACT What are the real risks

associated with oral piercings? MAIN Plessas A, Pepelassi E. _Aust Dent J_ 2012; 57: 71–78 It was conceded that this cross-sectional study (n = 110 subjects), had no control group.

Notwithstanding these limitations, the authors claim that one third of teeth showed damage and one third of gingival sites showed recession adjacent to the barbells/rings. Nevertheless, some

other studies have not found associations between oral piercings and tooth damage. In this study, it was reported that the longer the ornaments were worn, the more severe was the harm. Over

10% of the subjects carried out the piercings on themselves and in about 5%, the desire for the ornaments was to give sexual gratification. Following piercing, there was a high prevalence

of post-operative pain. However, there were no severe complications such as airway obstruction caused by a bleed or late complications such as Ludwig's angina. RIGHTS AND PERMISSIONS

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