i'm getting my tongue pierced but i need to hide to hide from my doctors?

Question

the month after i get it done i have to go to the doctor for a check up and after that i have to go to the dentist. what should i do i need help

Answer 1

I've had mine done before, except I told everyone. My question is why do you feel the need to hide it from your doctor or dentist. I know it sucks having people criticize you for it, but it's you and if they don't like it, oh well, there's probably reasons for you to criticize them too. When I got mine done, it was difficult to talk and especially eat and brush. It actually took about 2 weeks to get over that and get used to everything. I know you do have to wait a few weeks to change the ball, so maybe you could put in a clear one so it's not as visible. I would'nt reccommend taking the whole thing out, b/c your tongue heals reealy fast (I got my molars taken out and took out my piercing for about 1 day and couldn't get it back in!). The longer you have the piercing, the longer it takes for it to close up after you take it out. So after a month if you really have to, you could probably take out your piercing for an hour or two. But honestly most people I came across didn't even know I had it done unless I laughed out loud or shouted-basically anytime I opened my mouth wide. So maybe you could just be more quiet at the doctors. As far as the dentist, there's no way in getting around that he/she'll know you have your tongue pierced, weather you have the piercing in or not, b/c of the hole. But it doesn't really affect them or their work, or atleast it didn't w/me until I got my molars taken out. Sooo, my advice would be if you feel you need to hide it, than maybe you shouldn't get it done, otherwise it's your business not anyone else's. Once you do get it done, use a lot of ice whenever you can, it really does help w/ swelling and making the pain go away (not that it's thaaat painful). And always use mouthwash at first so you don't get an infection! Good Luck w/everything!

Answer 2

why would you need to hide it from your doctor or your dentist. i have an 8 gauge tounge ring and my doctor has nothing to do with if i have it or not. and as far as the dentist goes they can work around it. it isn't in the way for fillings or cleanings. i think you're makeing too much of it. if it is that big of an issue for you maybe you should rethink getting the piercing. and if you take good care of the piercing it can be healed in that time frame but it wouldn't be recommended to remove it for an appointment due to the fact that the center can reconnect and then you'd either have to jab the barbell thru or have it re-pierced. by the way i pierced professionally for 2 years before going back to school. if you want it get it. if you have this big of an issue with it rethink it.

Answer 3

Ooh, hot question! By and large, I agree w/ Toothfairy - if you must, switch out to plastic ball on the end rather than metal; this is kinder on the teeth.

I'm kind of ambivalent about tongue piercings. I've never KNOWN anyone to die of infections. #1, they'd be rare to start with (assuming you go to a professional piercer) and #2 you'd have to avoid going to the ER even after something is clearly WRONG. (of course, you seem to be kind of avoiding care a bit now, so...)

Do not do the following:
-clack it all around against your teeth
-chew on it all the time like ice
-bite on the the shaft with your front teeth and "worry" it or use it to gnaw on between the the incisors. This WILL cause loss of the lower front teeth.

lastly, if you're getting it for ...er, shall we say, the sake of your boyfriend/girlfriend (ahem) do NOT "use" it until you're all healed up!

WHATEVER you do, don't get a LeBret! (this is the piercing of the lower lip) 90% of the those that I see have caused or are causing irreversible damage to the gums and bone of the lower front teeth and often tooth loss. While I shrug off the tongue piercing, I will actually confront strangers in bars, grocery stores, whatever, and say, "Hey, sorry to be a dork, but get that S--- out of your face...."

Answer 4

I have been given my tongue pierced whilst i grew to become into sixteen, and concealed it from my mum the entire time I had it...which grew to become into purely some months cos I hated it plenty (could no longer poke my tongue out or lick my lips cos the tongue bar have been given in the way/clashed with my tooth)...mothers and dads make a great deal approximately those issues, even with the indisputable fact that it particularly is purely a piercing. If it particularly is rather that a great number of a project, you in simple terms take it out. it is not everlasting.

Answer 5

Why should u hide it from ur doctors? By a month it should be fairly well healed but not healed well enough to take out, even for a couple of hours. Your tounge tends to heal very quickly. You should be fine, I've had my tounge ring in while at the dentist, they know how to work around it. It should be no problem

Answer 6

Good luck in hiding it, but I'm sure the doctors have seen plenty of pierced tongues. Or, you could just wait until everything is done. I mean, what's another month?

Answer 7

sweetie, you can't hide it. even if you take it out there will be a hole! but. . .let me tell u something-not trying to talk you out of it-just educating you. I had my tongue pierced for 7 years. I have quite a few chips in many of my teeth-no problem didn't really bother me. One morning i woke up feeling like someone was sticking a steel rod thru the side of my face. I went to the emergency room. It hurt so bad I couldn't walk-all i did was cry. . .and cry. . .and cry. after getting a strong narcotic pain killer, i was able to be examined. Turns out that tongue piercings irritate nerves that are connected to your face. Afetr 7 years, and feeling like that was a part of me i would always have, i decided it was NOT worth that kind of pain. I am a mother of twins-i would rather have 6 more kids & even have some of them c-section-than ever have that kind of pain again! What ever u decide to do-good luck!

Answer 8

why would your doctor or dentist care if you got your tongue pierced. if your worried that a parent will be told, know that confidentiality laws do not permit that. as a hygienist i would not recommend getting it dome at all. you risk severe infection (your tongue is only inches from your brain too. people have died from brain infections caused by tongue piercings), nerve damage, broken or cracked teeth. if you do get one switch to plastic ball ends as soon as you can, they are kinder on the teeth.

Answer 9

What? Why are you hiding it? That makes no sense. I had 17 piercings at once and that included my nether regions. I never tried to hide them from any doctor, including the gyn. What are they going to do to you? It isn't against the law.

Answer 10

first off why do you need to hide it? Second if you need to hide it why don't you just wate till after the appointments? If you can't wate their is nothing you can do because you can't take it out the piercing will heal up, trust me i did that and had to have it re-pierced.