Riesgos de la salud por el uso del piercing oral.

Abstract

In recent years the use of oral piercing has become a phenomenon of the modern society, associated with fashion as a form of expression of the body cult known as body art. A bibliographical review was conducted in the Pubmed search engine, limiting the search to articles published in the last 10 years. The complications that can occur from the use of oral piercing can be of local or systemic involvement that could even put the patient’s life in danger or affect some of his organs. The local disorders are those of greater frequency, highlighting dental breakage, periodontitis, gingival recession, lesions in the mucous membrane and infections. As for the systemic complications, we find: cerebral abscess, thrombophlebitis and systemic infections. The appearance of the disorder from oral piercing can have an acute or chronic evolution, the symptoms can appear the day following the implanting of the piercing or they can appear after several years of use; for this reason the odontologist must be prepared and aware of the possible complications that such a patient could present when carrying out his clinical examination.