Abstract
In the last decade, #bodypiercing has become increasingly fashionable
especially among young adults. The growing trend of oral piercing
must be a concern to dental professionals because of the risks and #complications in the #oralcavity. Oral piercings, such as #tongue and lip
piercing, can cause several complications such as hemorrhage, pain,
swelling, lingual nerve damage, gingival recession, infection,
periodontal
distraction and fractured teeth. The purpose of this paper is to present
case reports and methods of treating the complications of tongue and
lip
piercing that appeared to the #periodontaltissues on the #lingual and #buccalsites of the #lowerincisors. In all cases EMD (Emdogain®) was
used
and the oral piercing was removed. All cases showed reduction of the
pocket depth, gain in clinical attachment level and significant
reduction
of #gingivalrecession. As a conclusion the use of EMD may be a treatment
of choice in patients that had periodontal damage after oral piercing
and these results seems to be reproducible.
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