How bad are tounge piercings for your teeth?

Not that risky: The common complications from tongue piercing are: bleeding, infection, nerve damage, gum disease and injuries to the teeth. Only a few patients have required a hospitalization and IV antibiotics to treat infections of the tongue. It is possible to crack or chip teeth with your piercing. Also constant pressure against frontal teeth might create teeth movement and requires braces.

Tongue piercing: Aside from the fact that the tongue is a very vascular ( lots of blood vessels) structure, and therefore subject to swelling and infection, the stud can chip/ break teeth- necessitating a visit to the dentist to repair the damage. Worse, it strips the gum and bone around the teeth which could eventually cause the loss of the tooth/teeth.

Very bad...!: If you get tongue piercing, you will get an accessory like ring or post or ball. I have seen many young, brand-new white teeth knocked out, broken, chipped, etc. As a result of these accessories. I have also once seen a badly infected tongue that was about to block the airway of the patient. Bacteria continue to invade inside your body through the tongue's hole also. Please don't kiss anyone!

Piercings can injure: As a general dentist, I have seen a number of teeth that have been fractured from the various objects place in the piercings. Usually it is from biting down on it. We have also treated several nasty infections from the piercings themselves. I tell my patients if they insist on having the piercings to at least use something that they won't be able to bite on and break teeth as easily!