Can Tongue Piercing really ruin your teeth and what are the dangers involved 
According to my dentist, the jewelry can bang against the teeth, causing wear or chipping, or if you bite your tongue and get the part with the jewelry you can break your teeth that way. But I have no personal knowledge of this - I’m too squeamish to get my ears pierced, much less anything else.
I have my tongue pierced. I checked it out with my dentist first (of course, he was all for it…). Theoretically, it’s possible to chip a tooth on a tongue ring, but I don’t know anyone who has. I think it would be pretty difficult to do with just a regular stud-type ring. I know someone who has chipped a tooth on one of the slave rings (a stud with a big circle attached to the top) but they are quite a bit more cumbersome than the ones I wear.
Labret piercings (placed below the bottom lip and above the chin) can erode the gums. I’d really like to have one but I’m really scared of anything that might cause damage to my teeth.
Just what I overheard after my last tattoo…
Two 14 year old girls went up to the piercer with their moms (parental consent being necessary for a tongue piercing) and the piercer turned them down. Her reasoning was that a tongue piercing was quite likely to chip or otherwise damage the teeth. According to her, it was not only the risk of accidentally biting the stud, but the fact that many people develop the habit of chewing on it. She was unwilling to do a tongue piercing on anyone until that individual was responsible for his/her own dental care. She did say that there were plenty of piercers who would have no qualms about it, but that she felt that, for herself, she could not do it.
So, I doubt that it is without risk, but that the risk should be understood and evaluated by the person in question.
I pierced my own tongue years ago. I did it when the plane I was flying in crashed, and I closed my mouth real hard when we hit the ground, while a portion of my tongue was still outside of my mouth, participating in a scream. Left a pretty big hole right in the middle of the distal third of the tongue. That was the worst physical pain of my life! Much worse than the jagged penetrating wounds in my groin from broken metal, much worse than the fractured arm, worse than the (many years) subsequent heart attack.
But it also healed the quickest. within 2 weeks it was completely pain free. And my teeth weren’t damaged at all!
Yes, it can probably ruin your teeth, given the right circumstances - however, brushing can also ruin your teeth in the right circumstances.
One possible danger would be if you had a girlfriend even remotely similar to myself, you would never get a moments peace…
(My ex had his tongue peirced -rrrowr!)
Alice,
Please explain to me the use/benefits of a pierced tongue. I dont have much of an imagination cause I can’t envision any good. I have heard about the benefits of a woman having a pierced tongue but I thought that was to give please to a man.
Men can perform oral sex too (I presume that’s what she’s talking about)…I can see how it would be a benefit 
well I gathered that she was talking about that but I cant figure out how one would be useful.
not just the gums, baby. i had one… not to scare you or anything… i’m a smoker w/ an oral fixation, so i chewed, sucked and otherwise played w/ it a great deal. it stretched out an area on my inner lower lip, scratched off a bunch of enamel from my front teeth and started to make my bottom front teeth split. not a whole lot of fun.