Scientific American: Playing with tongue stud causes gap in front teeth

Release Date: August 10, 2010 This content is archived.

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An article on Scientific American reports on UB research that found the force of "playing" with a tongue stud can move teeth, even forcing them apart, and reports on a 26-year-old woman who needed braces to push her teeth back together after getting a tongue stud seven years earlier.

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