[Science] Case Study: Tongue Stud Play Causes Front Teeth Gap
Agatha
That’s what it might sound like if I had a tongue stud, hitting my
teeth. Maybe you’ve seen people with studs in their tongue clicking it
up against their front teeth, a move known as “playing.” But it turns
out that the habit may destroy some smiles.
那聽起來就像是假如我有一個舌環，而它在打我的牙齒。也許你曾經看過有舌環的人們，用它來敲門牙，這個動作被稱為playing。但是這個動作可能會毀
滅某些微笑。
University of Buffalo researchers noticed that local high school
students who had a barbell-type tongue stud commonly pushed the
piercings against their front teeth. Then they examined a 26-year-old
patient at the school’s dental clinic. She’d had been complaining
about a large gap that had developed between her front two teeth.
Seven years previously, she got a tongue stud. And every day, for
seven years, she pushed that stud up against her teeth.
Buffalo大學的研究人員注意到，當地擁有槓鈴形狀舌環的高中生，通常會用舌環來敲打門牙。然後他們對一個學校牙醫診所裡的26歲病人做檢查。她持
續抱怨了她的門牙縫隙越來越大。七年前，她有了一個舌環。然後七年以來的每天，她都會用舌環去敲打她的門牙。
The researchers say tongues are strong, and it makes sense that the
force of “playing” will move teeth, even forcing them apart. The case
was written up in the Journal of Clinical Orthodontics. [Sawsan
Tabbaa, Ivanka Guigova and C. Brian Preston, www.jco-online.com]
研究人員提到舌頭是很強壯的，而且對於"playing"這個動作的力道會移動牙齒，甚至使它們分開是很合理的。這個case被寫在Journal
of Clinical Orthodontics
Tongue piercings have also been associated with infections, chipped or
broken teeth, and gum trauma. And the patient? She got braces to push
her teeth back together. Which probably didn’t look quite as cool as
she thought the tongue stud was.
舌環已經與很多傳染、牙齒缺角或破損以及牙齦創傷相關。而這位病人呢？她得到一個支撐架以把她的門牙推回去。這似乎看起來沒有她以前的舌環來的酷