The pain level for a tongue piercing is moderate, generally feeling like pressure rather than sharp pain. Healing time can ...

WASHINGTON — An experimental device is letting paralyzed people drive wheelchairs simply by flicking their tongue in the right direction. Key to this wireless system: Users get their tongue pierced ...

Getting your tongue pierced is a great way to add a unique touch to your look. Even if everyone you know had a tongue piercing, there are so many possibilities of placement, jewelry choice, and style ...

Once ubiquitous in every 90s teen movie, tongue rings still have an allure of ~mystery~ around them — especially if you were far too scared to get one (read: me). Thankfully Brian Skellie, medical ...

New evidence lends further support to the need for dentists to caution patients about the dangers of tongue piercing, which can lead to severe infections, chipped and fractured teeth, gingival ...

A young Connecticut woman who recently got her tongue pierced wound up with an accessory she didn't bargain for -- a brain infection. Doctors at Yale University's School of Medicine who treated her ...

There's always a level of risk that comes with getting a new piercing, no matter where you get it, which is why you should always do a bit of research on the specific type you want before making an ...

Georgia Tech researchers have found a better and more comfortable way for disabled patients to steer their wheelchairs. Maysam Ghovanloo, an associate professor in the School of Electrical and ...

Most people who are quadriplegics use sip-and-puff wheelchairs; they blow or suck into a straw to direct their chairs. But movement is limited to left, right, forward, and backward. New technology ...

Zara Tindall had a tongue piercing as a teenager in the late ’90s but didn’t break any royal rules by doing it. A former palace butler revealed his excitement about seeing the piercing in person and ...

You’re near death. Tongue hanging out. Saliva dripping to the floor. Too much to drink? Rat poison? How about Ludwig’s Angina? Your tongue swells to the point that it blocks off your ...