Straight barbell tongue rings:
Tongue piercing is most popularly done with straight barbell. 14 Ga is the most common gauge used for tongue piercing. In order to accommodate the swelling, the early length of the pierced barbell should be at least 3/4″. Once the tongue piercing has been healed, it can be replaced to a shorter barbell of 9/16″(14mm) which is the most usual size. It is recommended to wear a shorter barbell after the tongue piercing is healed.
Barbell fashion of body jewelry is composed of a straight bar and with a bead on each end, one or both beads unscrewable for removal and/or replacing of the beads. Often one of the beads is fixed, either via epoxy or welding, so that only one bead is used to fix or remove the jewelry. Barbell threads are mostly right-handed.
Body jewelry consists of approximately 5 different types of barbells. The insided threaded barbells are little bit more expensive than externally threaded barbells
as there will be extra machining and labor included. At the time of piercing, the internally threaded barbells cause less damage or irritation, so it is considered superior to externally threaded barbells. The bead in an internal threaded barbell has a receiving tube machine into it with a threaded post extending from the center, which mates with the threaded receiving tube on the bar.
Although the externally threaded barbells have become less common, the internally threaded barbells have increased in popularity. It is named so because shaft of the bar has threads at both ends to allow beads with the getting threads to be attached to the tongue ring.
Curved barbells are also known as a navel curve and are named because of their curvature. It is mechanically same to straight barbells except that they are curved. Curvature on a curved barbell can range from about straight to circular, with some barbells basically being spiral, with the ends overlapping but departed to permit the insertion
of the jewelry. A variation on this design is a J-bar, a slightly curved barbell (sometimes referred to as a bananabell or banana barbell) with a 90 degree bend near one end, used in verticalnavel piercings to position the decorative end of the body jewelry more appropriately. These barbells can be internally or externally threaded.
Circular barbells, also known as horseshoe barbells are used in some types of piercings. They are named so due to their shape.
Surface bars are used in surface piercings. In order to use these barbells for surface piercing, they have a pair of 90 degree bends in the same direction. Because of this design the pressure that would be
caused by other body jewelry designs that participate to rejection in healing surface piercings is minimized.
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