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Case Study: Tongue Stud Play Causes Front Teeth Gap

舌钉：“挤开”你的门牙

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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.

看起来这似乎是我的舌钉碰撞我的牙齿所造成的。也许你见过那些有舌钉的人用舌头叩击他们的门牙，这个动作就是我们通常所说的“演奏”。但是结果表明这个习惯可能会让你再也笑不出来。

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.

布法罗大学的研究人员发现当地高校的有些学生的又一种杠铃式的舌钉，这种舌钉经常抵着他们的门牙。接着他们在学校牙科室对一名26岁的病人做检查。这位病人一直以来都在抱怨她的两颗门牙中间长出来的缝隙。7年前，她打了个舌钉。而这7年来的每天，她都用她的舌钉抵着她的牙齿。

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, ].

研究人员表示，舌钉很坚硬，当借助于“演奏”这个动作时就会松动牙齿，甚至使它们分离。这项发现刊登在《临床畸齿矫正》杂志上。

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.

舌头穿刺还可能引起感染、碎牙、牙龈受损等。这个病人后来怎么样呢？她高高兴兴的对它的牙齿进行的复位。不过她现在可能觉得没有她以前有舌钉的时候酷了。

—Cynthia Graber

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