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Case Study: Tongue Stud Play Causes Front Teeth Gap

舌釘：“擠開”你的門牙

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That’s what it might sound like if I had a tongue stud, hitting my teeth. Maybe you’ve seen people with studs in their tongue clicking it up against their front teeth, a move known as “playing.” But it turns out that the habit may destroy some smiles.

看起來這似乎是我的舌釘碰撞我的牙齒所造成的。也許你見過那些有舌釘?shù)娜擞蒙囝^叩擊他們的門牙，這個動作就是我們通常所說的“演奏”。但是結(jié)果表明這個習(xí)慣可能會讓你再也笑不出來。

University of Buffalo researchers noticed that local high school students who had a barbell-type tongue stud commonly pushed the piercings against their front teeth. Then they examined a 26-year-old patient at the school’s dental clinic. She’d had been complaining about a large gap that had developed between her front two teeth. Seven years previously, she got a tongue stud. And every day, for seven years, she pushed that stud up against her teeth.

布法羅大學(xué)的研究人員發(fā)現(xiàn)當(dāng)?shù)馗咝５挠行W(xué)生的又一種杠鈴式的舌釘，這種舌釘經(jīng)常抵著他們的門牙。接著他們在學(xué)校牙科室對一名26歲的病人做檢查。這位病人一直以來都在抱怨她的兩顆門牙中間長出來的縫隙。7年前，她打了個舌釘。而這7年來的每天，她都用她的舌釘?shù)种难例X。

The researchers say tongues are strong, and it makes sense that the force of “playing” will move teeth, even forcing them apart. The case was written up in the Journal of Clinical Orthodontics. [Sawsan Tabbaa, Ivanka Guigova and C. Brian Preston, ].

研究人員表示，舌釘很堅硬，當(dāng)借助于“演奏”這個動作時就會松動牙齒，甚至使它們分離。這項發(fā)現(xiàn)刊登在《臨床畸齒矯正》雜志上。

Tongue piercings have also been associated with infections, chipped or broken teeth, and gum trauma. And the patient? She got braces to push her teeth back together. Which probably didn’t look quite as cool as she thought the tongue stud was.

舌頭穿刺還可能引起感染、碎牙、牙齦受損等。這個病人后來怎么樣呢？她高高興興的對它的牙齒進行的復(fù)位。不過她現(xiàn)在可能覺得沒有她以前有舌釘?shù)臅r候酷了。

—Cynthia Graber

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