So, how dangerous is that? Can that be reversed? I would think this kind of procedure would be a “forever” kind of thing. Can he still ‘move’ his tongue after that? Can he become tongue paralyzed or get an infection and have to have it amputated?
And as long as we’re on the subject, what hapens to someone with an amputated tongue?
I saw the same picture in a different article, unfortunatey I can’t remember the url. In it he claimed he could move each half of the ‘fork’ seperately. the following is a quote from the subject taken from ananova.com
‘…he insists: "When I first saw it, I thought tongue-splitting was the most beautiful thing I’ve seen in my life.’
As they say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Its damn sure that I can’t see any beauty in this particular ‘body modification’
Not very if done properly. The tongue is acutally two muscles, the splitting goes down the join between them.
Can it be reversed?
Yes it can, (the American Army will force you to have a reversal), it a much worse procedure than splitting it in the first place though.
Can he still move his tongue after that?
Yes, it’s quite possible to move the halves independantly.
Although depending how far back the splitting goes, you might get a slight lisp, but that can be overcome once you learn to speak with a split tongue.
Can he become tongue paralyzed?
I’m not sure about ‘paralyzed’ but if it’s done incorretly, it can cause problems, same as a badly pierced tongue.
What happens to someone with an amputated tongue?
The have great diffculty forming words, and possibly eating, not really sure.
It’s actually something I would quite like to have done, but I don’t think the boy would approve!
I’d want the tongue splitting and lengthening though!
Helpful Hint: you don’t need surgery to do this. I saw a magazine article somewhere about a girl that did it by placing a piece of fishing line through her tongue piercing and tying+tightening it repeatedly over a weekend. She reported that there was no blood, only the odd taste/texture of lots of skin sloghing off, and not much pain (though I guess this is a relative term). She could move both halves of hers separately too, the mag had photos demonstrating as much.
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There have just been two times in my life when I regretted clicking on a link. The first time was a body mod, too. Kind of like this one but farther south :eek:
The rest of your post made some sort of sense, Nightingale. But I can’t figure this comment out at all. Clarification?
Having sewn a few tongues back together in my career (and having bitten a hole thru mine years ago in a plane crash), I really don’t see the desirability for elective surgical mucking around in such a nerve and blood-vessel rich muscle.
I did try superglue first, but ran into some…ummmmm… problems. Yeah, that’s it, problems! By the time I got the patient’s upper lip detached from his nostril, one of the other docs had taken off with the staple gun to do a vasectomy. So I had little choice save to catgut his tongue.
Harmonica players use something called ‘tongue-blocking’ to select notes and form chords. I expect tongue splitting would make possible some pretty exotic chords.
But I think I’ll let a more dedicated harp player than me find out.