Variations

In most cases it is a tongue piercing a tongue in the middle of the vertically placed plug. It is often possible to have multiple tongue piercings behind or next to each other.

Possible but also the attachment of jewelry on the sides of the tongue tip or horizontally through the tongue. Particularly in the latter, the use of flexible jewelry such as polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) is recommended to the movement of the tongue to minimize beeinträchtigen.In most cases it comes from these more exotic variations on speech disorders and problems with food intake. The procedure is described as a particularly painful and the healing process to be lengthy.

Several symmetrically placed piercings in the tongue or lip piercings are known as Venom. In a horizontally through the pierced tongue extending below the frenum jewelry it is a frenulum piercing.

Like other piercings also, the tongue piercing are carefully stretched to a larger diameter. The massive jewelry but can cause increased tooth decay. There are therefore called "Smartie Beads" that can not be screwed with a correspondingly large ball, but a specially flattened portion.