RESEARCH ARTICLE
Oral and Perioral Piercing Complications
N Escudero-Castaño, M.A Perea-García, J Campo-Trapero, Cano Sánchez , A Bascones-Martínez*
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2008Volume: 2
First Page: 133
Last Page: 136
Publisher ID: TODENTJ-2-133
DOI: 10.2174/1874210600802010133
Article History:
Received Date: 22/10/2007Revision Received Date: 7/10/2008
Acceptance Date: 5/11/2008
Electronic publication date: 4/12/2008
Collection year: 2008
open-access license: This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited.
Abstract
Background.
The oral an perioral piercing has a long history as part of religious, tribal,cultural or sexual symbolism and nowdays there is a high incidence of oral and perioral piercing in the adolescent population. This practice has a long history as part of religious, tribal, cultural or sexual symbolism. This article reviews current knowledge on injuries or diseases that might be produced by piercing in the oral cavity. We propose a classification to diagnosed the pathologies related to oral an perioral piercing
Methods.
A search was conducted of articles in PubMed, Scielo published between 1997 and 2007, using the key words ``oral and perioral, piercing ´´, ``oral, piercing and disease”, ``recessions and oral piercing´´. It has reviewed about twentythree articles 17 were narrative reviews and 6 case series
Results.
A review was carried out on the origins of oral and perioral body piercing and its local implications, classifying the different alterations like recessions, systemic implications that it can produce in the oral and perioral cavity.
Conclusion.
Patients with oral and perioral piercing should be regularly followed up because of the possible development of different types of adverse effects.
Clinical implications.
Adverse effects of oral and perioral piercing can be systemic, with transmission of infectious diseases such as hepatitis B or C, or can be local, with alteration of oral mucosae or even of dental structures.
