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chipped enamel for tongue piercing?
i wanna get my tongue pierced. not anything major, like 3 piercings in a row, just one in the middle.
dont ask why i want it, i just do, and i have for 3 years now. anyway.
my dad is so close to caving, but he needs a little convincing. hes worried about my enamel because he read somewhere that the ball on the piercing bangs against teeth all the time and it chips the enamel, and makes it a lot easier to get cavities...and we dont have dental insurance anymore.
so is there any way i could get a piercing and not destroy my teeth? like i was thinking i could get a regular piercing, but instead of a metal ball, just get a plastic one or something...or maybe marble, which i think is lighter than metal. not sure.
also, i smoke. and what would happen if i smoked while my tongue was still healing? is it ok to smoke while its healing, as long as i rinse real well? it is ok to smoke AFTER its done healing?
thank you to anybody who answers these :)
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You can't really avoid the wear on your enamel. It isn't necessarily the chipping of the teeth (though it is more likely to happen when you have a metal ball in -.- trust me), it's that the ball will rub against your teeth even when you don't notice.
It isn't noticeable because there is no pain. Your teeth don't really FEEL much of something grazing against them so half the time you don't even know that the ball is touching your teeth. The problem is that after so long, your enamel does wear away.
Without the enamel you will get more cavities, but only on the parts of the teeth that the ball comes in contact with (so, basically, the inner side of most of your teeth).
People also tend to play with the ball sometimes, which helps to wear the enamel down even faster. Some people will accidentally have the ball "click" on their teeth while they are talking--leading to faster enamel wear.
It's the equivalent of putting ANYTHING in your mouth. If you choose plastic, it will still happen. If you choose marble, it will still happen. If you chose to put ANYTHING in your mouth for a prolonged period of time, the outcome would be negative.
A tongue stud also helps to keep bacteria thriving in the mouth. The hole is never thoroughly cleaned out well enough and it will harbor bacteria--cavity causing bacteria, at that. So, first you have worn-down enamel after prolonged wear and then you have a nice breeding ground for nasty bacteria.
Then, if that wasn't bad enough, if you bite down accidentally (and it WILL happen...trust me) then you risk actually chipping a tooth. A chipped tooth NEEDS to be seen by a dentist immediately because the chipped part had no enamel on it, leaving it completely open to harmful bacterial (that are then growing on the tongue stud).
You have to stop smoking for, at the very least, the first 4 weeks of the newly healed piercing. If you don't, you risk infection and a longer healing process. Infection can be very severe, and coupled a longer healing process you will be VERY unhappy (the first week of it is very irritating as it is, I couldn't imagine much longer or having an infection at the same time...ugh). There is a BIG rule of no alcohol-no smoking during the first four weeks of the tongue piercing. This can be difficult for some if they haven't stopped smoking prior to the piercing because the first week or so your eating habits dwindle down.
I would say, to be on the safest side possible, to give the tongue 6 weeks to heal before picking up the smoking habit again. The body is still healing through 6 weeks, 4 is the absolute minimum you could give the body for proper healing. So, if you could, give the body 6 weeks before smoking again. Then, after you smoke, make sure to brush your teeth and rinse your mouth out with some saline solution (salt water).
I had my tongue piercing for...about 4 years, I think. In the first year, I chipped two teeth. In the first year, I began to have cavities in teeth that were perfectly fine beforehand. My teeth also started to stain a light yellow because of the bacteria that was constantly growing on the stud and in the hole (yes, you can't stop it from growing there, it's just the perfect spot for them to start breeding). I Listerine, floss, and brush my teeth regularly but it doesn't make cavities disappear.
No matter what you do, it WILL wear your enamel down. No matter what you do, you WILL began to have more cavities than previously.
You simply cannot avoid it.
Think it through before doing it.
If you want good teeth, please don't do it. I wish I not had it done those years ago.
If you have any more questions please feel free to ask me! :)
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First of all I think no matter what you shoud quit smoking all together. I had a really bad experience with it, my uncle smoked only for 4 years and he died of respitory cancer! He was on 19, but I dont know what would happen but it cant be good. Also I think you should just wait cause till you get alot older obviously if you arent even allowed to make this decision on your own but if you must tell your dad you lotts of people get tounge rings and nothing happen. So get a reliable source and got to the doctor.
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Hey, I haave my tongue pierced and it really doesn't band against your teeth or anything I've had it for almost a year now and everything is fine.
as for smoking I was smoking and drinking the night I had it done and everything was fine, it never got infected or anything.
just be sure to use mouth wash regularly! well more than regularly, like after every meal would be best.
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