If you choose to have a body part pierced, you run the risk of the following:

• Chronic infection
• Prolonged bleeding
• Scarring
• HIV, Hepatitis B and C (which can be fatal) and Tetanus
• Skin allergies to the jewellery that's used
• Abscesses or boils (infected cysts under your skin at the site of the piercing, which may have to be drained with needles)
• Permanent holes in your face
• Chipped or broken teeth
• Choking from mouth jewellery
• A speech impediment