Reminds me… A few years ago I was sitting in the dentist chair listening to the doctor tell me the horrors of tongue studs. How much trouble they cause by knocking off the enamel around teeth causing more cavities and more removals. Much of the problem comes from people moving their tongue around when they sleep kaknocking the stainless against the inside layers of their teeth.
Once my mouth was empty it happened that several of the female hygienists were in the room mixing and whatnot and I said something to the effect of loss of tooth enamel may be worth the whole point of tongue studs. They asked me what the point was. I told them that goes without saying for everyone knows the answer to that. Blank stares. From those who work in the oral world…