Tongue piercing overview
A Tongue piercing typically refers to a piercing of the tongue from the bottom, vertically thru to exit from the outer surface of the tongue. A piercer should check the tongue completely before the piercing. There are 3 arterial veins that run from near the end of the tongue right back along the length of the tongue.
The tongue is a muscle and so gets ALOT of blood pumping into it.
The piercer should be terribly careful NOT to pierce into the arterial vein, frequently found running down the center of the tongue. The dimensions of the tongue should additionally be considered well, before the piercing. Some folks are ‘tongue-tied’, a name which makes reference to folk whose Lingula fraenum runs right to the top of the tongue, forestalling the tongue from extending, even a little way, out of the mouth.