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PostPosted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 12:55 pm    Post subject: Labret piercing- worried about my gums! Reply with quote

(if this is in the wrong place please lemme know, although I thought it was appropriate to put it in the help and advice bit.)

I got my labret pierced early this year, but a couple of months ago I started wearing a 10mm bar because my other one was too short and I couldn't screw the ball on properly.

I noticed that I had two very large mouth ulcers forming on my gums below my 2 front teeth at the bottom (directly near my labret.) I've now got a smaller bar in and it's not rubbing my gums, and although the ulcers have gone, I've got more gum showing than before; like the bar has pushed it down, and it's significantly more than the rest of my gums. One part has actually gone down in a diagonal sorta slant, should I be worried? Has this happened to anyone else and what did you do?
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 1:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hmm, i'd get it looked over to be honest..

ive had my labret piercing for nearly 4 years now and mines fine. The only thing different is that I have a small circular bit in my lip on the inside where the disc at the back lies (I have a reasonably small bar)
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 1:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

hmm ok, do you think I should go to the place that pierced me or my dentist? To be honest I don't know what my piercer would suggest and my dentist would tell me to take it out :S
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 1:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You're right. I'd try your piercer first though
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 1:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ok, thanks! will give it a shot next week sometime
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 1:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ouch.
I agree go to your piercer first.
I have mine done on and off for 8 years the recent ones i got,im the same as Jodie,i got the two indents on my lip too .... Lets us know what was said.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 1:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

yeah will do, I have a small dent in my lip too but it's just the gum thing that's worrying! :S
I think I left the long bar in for too long, I never got round to getting a new one so I left it in probably longer than I should have!
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 1:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Did the longer bar rub where you got the ulcers?
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 1:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

yeah, it was so painful cos the ulcers never had a chance to go! lol. It's all good now, cept the gums are lower down than the rest of it 0__o
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 1:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

There could be a chance it could be nothing to do with the piercing .... But i don't like to take chances.
I know it can happen though and is a real worry when you dont know if its just an ordinary ulcer or it got there with help of the piercing.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 1:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

thankyou for the advice I'm pretty sure they were because of the bar, as I've never had ulcers there before and they've gone now I have a shorter bar (think it's a 6mm now.)
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 1:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just make sure you don't what i have done sooooooo many times before .... My bar in the left side has been knocked twice into my gum! And my god does it hurt Laughing
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 4:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

update: I went to my piercer, who basically just said that I need a plastic bar now to stop any more pressure pushing on my gums. They didn't have the right size in stock so they've ordered one in for me...still a bit worried though, I don't know if they'll stay like that or what!! :S
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 10:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've got slight receding gums where the discs of my labrets and my tongue bar rubs. I found that in the past 10 years they have only receded to a certain point and although it's not exactly the best thing in the world as I doubt the gum will ever grow back it's not the worst. Just keep an eye out for any excessive erosion, as obviously you could get secondary issues such as infection or damage to the teeth undneath
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 10:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://www.bodyjewelleryshop.com/online_store/titanium_medilab_labret_stud_16mm_8920752.cfm

This should help
Plastic shouldn't be worn in piercings "/
It's weird your piercer should say that, he might have meant bioplast though.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 8:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

hi,i had my labret (under my lips just from the inside at the bottom of my teeth) for 12 years..i had to remove it yes because ut pushes the gums down discovering the bottom of my teeth.
It depends so where you will do your piercing..a labret can be done on different place.If you do it on the right or left of your mouth under it you shouldn't have any problem as it won't touch your gums,same if you does it on the top.

I never had an ulcer or anything like that.Lost likely if it hurts or does a 'circle' is either that your labret is too small either bad quality...
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 1:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i dont know if anyone has said thia already but i know my sister had the same problem and the pierced sugested a bar with rubber backing so it wouldnt scrape her gums up!! some piercers should have them in stock, not everyone is a fan though but it works wonders!
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 4:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The risk is that these teeth may fall out (that's what i've heard)

I've had my labret done, but never wore plastic jewelry, but I recently got
my lip done and they pierced it with this kind of jewelry that had some silicone
thing-y in the back so it won't break the teeth..
Looks like regular silver stud, but has this silicone thing in the back
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 5:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

wiccan_willow wrote:
i dont know if anyone has said thia already but i know my sister had the same problem and the pierced sugested a bar with rubber backing so it wouldnt scrape her gums up!! some piercers should have them in stock, not everyone is a fan though but it works wonders!


Its not the fact that its a hard material, its just the friction the bar creates so having the rubber backing wouldn't make a difference. When I wore labrets I also got ulcers around the holes and on my gums in line with them, which were horrible. I wear rings now to be on the safe side, even though my dentist keeps moaning at me to take them out.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 9:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

freakenstein wrote:
The risk is that these teeth may fall out (that's what i've heard)

I've had my labret done, but never wore plastic jewelry, but I recently got
my lip done and they pierced it with this kind of jewelry that had some silicone
thing-y in the back so it won't break the teeth..
Looks like regular silver stud, but has this silicone thing in the back


yeah that sounds like what i was talking about. lol... its more easy on your teeth and my sister's gums didnt get cut up and her sores she had went away because the material is softer than the metal and the friction was less!
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 9:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

freakenstein wrote:
The risk is that these teeth may fall out (that's what i've heard)

I've had my labret done, but never wore plastic jewelry, but I recently got
my lip done and they pierced it with this kind of jewelry that had some silicone
thing-y in the back so it won't break the teeth..
Looks like regular silver stud, but has this silicone thing in the back


A dental labret? Mine have a white disk at the back that stops erosion. I think they're fantastic. *Thumbs up*
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 10:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have quite a high labret and I get the same thing too.. I don't get the ulcers, but my gums have gone flat and worn down ever so slightly from my bar.. I wear a medium length bar, so it's expected really!
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 11:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gum erosion is the result of either poor placement of the piercing, the wrong jewelry, or both.
I had my labret for about 7 years, and I had to repierce it twice because it had a habit of closing up if I took the jewelry out for more than an hour.

I wore regular flat-back studs for a while, but after the second repiercing I noticed that my gums were starting to recede down on my two front bottom teeth. I went back to the piercer who fitted me with a fishtail labret, which worked wonderfully for 3 years. Last year though I noticed that the gum on one of my other teeth were also receding, on the side I regularly wore the fishtail jewelry on.
I heard about bioplast, so I decided to give that a try. After three years of having a fishtail, I absolutely could not stand the feeling of the flat back rub against my gums. All I could think about what how it damaging my gums, and the plastic back was actually rougher on my gums than metal was.
I'm a chewer, and I went through one bioplast stud in about 4 days. My chewing and peeling it up made it feel like sandpaper on my gums, and those things are expensive enough that I can't afford to eat two a week.

Finally last fall I decided to throw in the towel, after 7 years I took the damn thing out and had it repierced as a vertical labret! I love it so much more, and I've bypassed my teeth entirely.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 10:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I usually wear a plastic labret stud in mine as it's better for gums (mine is like, so in the wrong place really, planning on getting it repierced at some point less wonky Rolling Eyes ) and also because it's easier to hide with no effort (just take the ball off!). Currently I'm wearing a glow in the dark plastic ring though. ^_^

I have one of the labrets with the white plasticy bit on the disc, and it felt exactly the same as metal to me, both in my mouth and when just like, seeing what it felt like with my fingers. :s
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