Tongue Piercings give sponge
20th december 2009 ( News )
2 out of 10 piercings in the tongue gives oral thrush
A study published in the journal Oral Diseases shows that tongue piercings gives sponge. In an Israeli study, 115 young healthy tungepiercede subjects compared with 86 young healthy people with piercings outside the mouth. Twice as many of the tungepiercede (20%) was found to have sponge.
Read more in Dentistry Magazine No. 15 2009 or www.tandlaegebladet.dk
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This is just something to scare people ..
I've even tongue piercing and marks no difference.
you die, not even to get tongue piercing, I got it 2 times and I'm still healthy and alive ..
The big question is whether you have or have had thrush?
The article is of course based on surveys, and it survives also usually a fungal infection of the mouth, unless you are otherwise healthy ...
Taking the number of subjects, there is far from enough data to call it for statistical significance. There are more than talk about a trend among study selected participants.
But interesting study which I hope will be followed up. Tongue Piercings which clamps on the tongue and wrong cleaners, I can easily imagine could give a decisive negative effect.