JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. Teton County has adopted new regulations governing businesses that offer tattoos and piercing. The new regulations ban tongue and genital piercings, and also scarification and ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Mark this one down as a parental nightmare. First, your child gets her tongue pierced. Then, as if you needed something else, she starts "playing" with the tiny barbell-shaped stud, ...

TONGUE rings are becoming increasingly popular in Jamaica. Some women opt to get a vertical piercing through the centre of the tongue (midline), while others choose a horizontal (snakeye), or even a ...

Tongue piercing was a ritual tradition of the Maya and the Aztecs, ancient and -- apparently -- gap-toothed peoples. Now the dental cause and effect has been established: Those who choose to pierce ...

As a young woman in art school — at the exploratory age of 20 — there were two things I wanted above all else: To have a kitten and to get a tongue piercing. I wanted a kitten because I had been ...

A student who had her tongue pierced ended up needing hospital treatment after it swelled so much she struggled to breathe. Amy Revell, 17, had developed a a huge blood-filled lump called a haematoma ...

BODE, Nepal (Reuters) - Pressing his palms together, Jujubhai Basan Shrestha raises his hands, acknowledging greetings from the cheering crowd of devotees and onlookers. Sporting a white turban, the ...

The family of an Oklahoma toddler who was born with an unusually large tongue hopes to raise money for a reduction surgery to aid with his eating and talking. Baker Roth, who is 16 months old, was ...