Tongue Piercing

Steoob

hi hows it goin

just wondering about a tongue peircing. i think it would look good on me becase when i laugh i stick my tongue out and it would just look natural. so is there anything anyone owuld like to tell me about them? ie pros/cons and stuff... i googled it and found some info but i only trust boardsies for imformation these days...

a few questions i want to ask anyways... can you get studs that are balls on top but flat underneath? and does it affect your speech for longer than the healing time? and is it one of those piercings that creates more hassle than anything...

hope you can give me some good info on this

thanks a mill
Sven

daiixi

I'm not sure how having a piece of metal sticking through your tongue can ever look natural.. There are plenty of other threads which have the information you're looking for.

porn_star

oh my sweet lord jesus....is someone ****ting me? Seriously. Another tongue piercing thread. Really it's not that complex a piercing. Just go ****ing do it and stop freaking yourself out about it. These threads are hurting my ****ing head.
And yeah, it's really natural having a piece of metal stuck through you :rolleyes:
ever hear of the search tool?
Go use it.

PowerHouseDan

How much does it cost?

porn_star

:rolleyes: As stated in many of the other tongue piercing threads, shops generally charge between 40-50 euro for it.

crazy_dude6662

price varies


i think in snakebite its 50 in celestial ring its 55...somthing similar to that anyway

JustCoz

I have it done and it's grand, your speech is affected for maybe 2 weeks, just lisping really and then it's fine. I think it's well worth doing I love mine. It does feel really natural to me now coz I've had it for a while- it feels weird when I take it out!
One bit of advice, don't let them numb your tongue when they're piercing it because that can be really dangerous

amazingemmet

Numbing your tongue is not dangerous as they only use a 5% xylocaine mouth wash solution, which is available otc, it actualy won't numb your tongue greater then 2mm depth hence why you still feel it when they do numb it. For full sensory loss in the mouth they'd need to inject into the v3 section of the trigeminal nerve (there an anatomy lesson for ya). Please don't go stating rumour and a friend of a friend told me stuff.

Also porn star it starts again.

porn_star

^^heeheee, get you with your anatomy lesson...it'll go right over there heads though m'dear... And it's never gonna end..We should just get a sticky thread especially about tongue piercings before me and you both crack up!!!

irishcrazyhorse

Spot the parents of the piercing/tattoo board:D
All I can say is,pornstar you better not try and be bossy on BME our I will have to put you in your place missy :cool:

Having stickys would be a great idea,ie.tongue piercings,bellybutton,ear strethcing etc...

porn_star

moi? bossy? you lie Shane, you lie....although I guess perception is suppose to be reality...too bad I dont believe it!!
Although, I do believe I spend too much time on here and now that I've just been called a parent of the board it might actually scare me away from here and make me study...hmm.!:)

Blub2k4

porn_star wrote:

been called a parent of the board it might actually scare me away from here and make me study...hmm.!:)

But mammy who's gonna make dinner if you're gone ...............?????????

porn_star

Haha...you want to know what my cooking skills consist of??
lol..and this is shameful to say the least....toast....and it's not even cooking.But it's all I can make. I'm the least domesticated person in the entire world and when I move out at the end of the Summer the big bad world is gonna bite me in the ass!!
So, I guess you'll have to fend for yourself when it comes to food m'dear

JustCoz

amazingemmet wrote:

Please don't go stating rumour and a friend of a friend told me stuff.

Well when I got mine done, the girl who pierced my tongue told me this was really dangerous and the place was very clean and professional.

Also a friend of mine got her tongue pierced in Greece and they numbed her tongue and she didn't get the feeling back for a 2 days. Thats pretty dangerous if you ask me. I'm just passing on what I know, no harm in that

Thephantomsmask

amazingemmet wrote:

For full sensory loss in the mouth they'd need to inject into the v3 section of the trigeminal nerve (there an anatomy lesson for ya).

That's slightly flawed,
the lingual branch of the trigeminal nerve mostly provides the sensation of taste to the tip of the tongue with a small number of pain receptors. The bulk of pain sensation in the tongue comes from the glosso-pharyngeal nerve. Also local anaesthetics are not injected into nerves, they are injected proximal to nerve trunks where they are taken up into the nerve by Na+ channels. In any case giving an injected local anaesthetic for a tongue piercing would be a waste of money really, the slight pain of the initial injection would be nearly the same as just piercing without giving an injection.

amazingemmet

Isn't the v3 section the mandibular nerve which supplies most the pain reception for the tongue and buccal mucosa? it has been awhile since i've had to study this though.

Thephantomsmask

You're right about the 3rd branch supplying the buccal region and pretty much all of the oral cavity both in sensory and motor functions, however sensory function in the tongue is from lingual nerve branch running along the sides of the tongue from the pterygoid muscles, which serves the mucous membranes of the mouth, gums, sublingual glands and the papillae before it anastamoses in the tip of the tongue with the glosso-pharyngeal. It has some functions in pain in the tongue but mostly taste, whereas it has common sensory functions everywhere else. The glosso-pharyngeal runs through the hyo-glossus muscle into the root of the tongue and is entirely sensory in the tongue. It's been a while since l did any of this too, had to scour through Gray's to be sure. I reckon a tongue piercing faq should be stickied at this stage though!

Patricide

O yea sven, found out it probrably wont affect your singing much after a while cause howard jones from killswitch has his tongue pierced and man can that guy sing.

amazingemmet

Thephantomsmask wrote:

You're right about the 3rd branch supplying the buccal region and pretty much all of the oral cavity both in sensory and motor functions, however sensory function in the tongue is from lingual nerve branch running along the sides of the tongue from the pterygoid muscles, which serves the mucous membranes of the mouth, gums, sublingual glands and the papillae before it anastamoses in the tip of the tongue with the glosso-pharyngeal. It has some functions in pain in the tongue but mostly taste, whereas it has common sensory functions everywhere else. The glosso-pharyngeal runs through the hyo-glossus muscle into the root of the tongue and is entirely sensory in the tongue. It's been a while since l did any of this too, had to scour through Gray's to be sure. I reckon a tongue piercing faq should be stickied at this stage though!

Cool, that brings me back. Maybe we need a general warning against tongue piercings so we don't get any more of these threads.

porn_star

I just realised a proper conversation about the anatomy took place in a tongue piercing thread and everything that was said went over my head
*is ashamed*
lol

But, no...tongue piercing sticky needs to be had..its ridicolous at this stage the amount we have going

Audie

I didnt find getting my tongue pierced very painful at all so i dont see why you would really want it numbed anyway.
And my speech was only affected for about a week.