Do you have a pierced-tongue? If yes then we like to inform you it can cause tooth gaps.

Research claims that playing with a pierced-tongue can eventually results in a gap between the front teeth. Which is a basic tenet of orthodontic that force, over time, moves teeth," .

A study found that high school students revealed that the presence of a barbell implant/stud caused a damaging habit whereby subjects pushed the metal stud up against and between their upper front teeth, a habit commonly referred to among the students as "playing."

And the number is very high percent of the cases.

Further it is also found that playing with the stud which is pierced on a tongue may also result in a gap between tooth.


This information we came to know when a 26 year old female patient examined who complained that a large space had developed between her upper central incisors or upper front teeth. The patient also had a tongue piercing that held a barbell-shaped tongue stud.

She told that she had pierced seven years earlier and every day for seven years she had pushed the stud between her upper creating the space between them and, subsequently, habitually placing it in the space. The patient did not have a space between her upper front teeth prior to the tongue piercing.

The stud or you can say barbell because the tongue is as become so vascular that leaving the stud out can result in healing of the opening in the tongue,.

So if you had pierceing on your tongue if it is possible remove it, or stop playing from it, otherwise it can lead to tooth gap which is very dangerous.