To provide safe and effective care for patients with body piercings, nurses must become more knowledgeable about this increasingly common practice. Competent nursing care is more than simply ...

A lip tie is an extra short or tight labial (maxillary) frenulum – that's the triangle-shaped piece of connective tissue that attaches your baby's upper lip to their gum. All babies have some ...

It is important to be aware of who is performing body piercings in the community and under what conditions (Armstrong, 1996). Many jurisdictions do not regulate body modification practices.

A group of Ice Age hunter-gatherers living in central Europe may have adorned their faces with cheek piercings at as early as six-years-old. Although the author of a recent study published in the ...

So now we’ve established that there’s a whole bunch of reasons you might want to go under the needle, an expert provides advice on all things nipple piercing-related, from the pain and whether ...

Zeke views the surgical modifications as a step above piercing. He explains that a motivating factor in choosing to implant beads was that it makes intercourse more comfortable for his partner. He ...

When it affects a baby's ability to feed, a lip tie may need to be corrected with an outpatient surgical procedure. The lip (labial) frenum is a small piece of tissue that connects the upper lip to ...

These piercings likely signaled a person's membership in a group, according to John Willman, a biological anthropologist at the University of Coimbra in Portugal, but they also caused teeth to move.

Labial adhesions happen when the labia minora (the inner folds of skin surrounding the vaginal opening) become fused together. In most cases, only a small part of the labia is fused, so the adhesions ...

Some guys think that body piercing, including penis piercing, is pretty cool. Perhaps you're even one of them. If you're healthy and you're sure this is what you want, then there's no reason you ...