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Doctors, what are the consequences of lip piercing infection?

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Dr. Glenn Messina answered

Specializes in Aesthetic Medicine

Multiple: Infection Harming a blood vesicle altered speech creating a fistula, a tiny tunnel going from inside the mouth to the outside difficulty in job seeking

Answered 6/23/2014

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