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Ear Cropping

September 12th 2008 00:49

Ok this one is by far my favorite.... ha not really. It's a subject that I am still undecided upon when regards to dogs, as my dog training instincts says, "it removes so many vital communication skills between dogs," but my personal side says, "some dogs look really cool with cropped ears." In dogs, the process is meant to make the ear stand up, and is pretty popular amongst Boxers, American Pit Bull Terriers, American Staffordshire Terriers, and Great Danes, just to name a few breeds.

But, you can pretty much guarantee that I'm not talking about dogs here. Yes, people get their ears cropped, as well. It's a rather interesting concept, and very similar to that of dog ear cropping.

Basically, part of the ear cartlage is removed from the ear. Where in dogs, as mentioned above, ear cropping is meant to make the ear stand upright, but in humans it is purely to reshape the ear.

The process of cropping a human ear basically entails removing the cartlage with a scalpel and then sealed with electrocautery or sutures.

You want to make sure that you take care of the healing crop, but for the most part the two surfaces will heal together due to the tissue death between the two pieces of skin tissue.

Risks of ear cropping in humans can include:
* Ear collapse
* Infection

Thanks BME for the picture

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Body Suspension

August 17th 2008 17:54

Body suspension is a ritual ordeal form of body play, where a person hangs from flesh hooks (which essentiall look like giant fish hooks). The hooks are put through (normally) temporary piercings, and the person is carefully lifted into the air to hang from a few feet to several feet above the ground.

People who engage in body suspension claim to have a spiritual connection when they are hanging in the air. Although, I'm not convinced of this, it does seem that more people claim this feeling.

Many people even claim that after they have experienced a body suspension, they undergo a life change, as they have overcome a fear or they have experienced an awakening or sense of bliss and nirvana. (Again, I'm a skeptic, but who knows... I've never done it, so I wouldn't.)

Suicide Suspension

The entire process is more mental than it is physical, so if you are thinking about experiencing body suspension, you want to make sure that you are in the right mental state. Make sure tat you unerstand the negative downfalls and the oops situations that other people have experienced. If you're still into experiencing body suspension, make sure that you understand the process.

Basically, the hooks, which again are very often just deep-sea fishing hooks with the barbs carefully removed, are inserted through traditional, yet very deep, needle piercings at various points on your body depending on what type of suspension you are interested. The hooks are rigged with rope or chain to a suspension rig so that your weight is evenly distributed over the hooks, which potentially minimizes complications. And you are carefully raised off the ground or table you are laying/sitting on.

Suspension Hooks

When the process is over and the hooks are being removed, don't try to tell the person to take them out slowly. The faster you have the hooks removed, the less it will hurt. Sometimes there will be dried blood around the hooks, but that will be removed when the hooks are removed (most people don't even notice). When the hooks are removed fully, you should have the air within the wound "burped" out of your skin via massage, and then the wounds should be cleaned and dressed with gauze. After about 24 hours, you should notice a scab; at this point just make sure that you keep up regular cleaning to prevent any infection.

Knee Suspension

Common types of body suspension include:

* Suicide Suspension (the most common): Hung vertically from piercings in the back. A variation that includes hooks in the arm is a Crucifix Suspension.
* Vertical Chest Suspension or O-Kee-Pa style: Hung through upper chest
* Superman Suspension: a Horizontal Suspension with the face pointing down with hooks through the back and legs
* Coma Suspension: a horizontal suspension with the face pointing up
* Lotus Suspension: a suspension in the lotus position
* Resurrection Suspension: a suspension from the torso
* Knee Suspension: a suspension from the knees, hanging upside down
* Elbow Suspension: a vertical suspension with hooks in the elbows. You may see the One Hook Elbow Suspension, which is more extreme and has only been successful once
* Calf Suspension: a vertical upside down suspension with hooks in the calves

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Tongue Splitting

June 27th 2008 21:27

Tongue splitting, also known as a forked tongue or bifurcated tongue, is just what it sounds like... A split tongue.

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Essentially, the fibrous septum that divides the tongue naturally is cut, which separates the tongue into two halves. In theory, the tongue can be split as far back as where it meets the base of the mouth, and if you past this point, you'll endanger the muscles potentially causing a speech impediment.

You can have your tongue split just on the end or half way back, if you wish. The main restriction to how far the cut is, is when you get close to the base of the tongue.

You should not cut your tongue in any more pieces than two, as cutting more than two halves involves the lingual nerves and glands as well as major blood vessels.

With work and training, a person with a split tongue can control both sides so that they move independently.

There is more than one method to splitting your tongue, but you want to make sure that whichever method is used, you want to make sure that it's being performed safely and by a professional.

Oral Surgeon
You want to consider this method first, as it is the safest method to splitting your tongue. Although, by seeking the assistance of an oral surgeon, you're going to be paying more than the other methods, you'll at least be getting the safest service.

The surgeon will apply an anesthestic and use a laser to slowly cut through the tissue until the tongue is fully bifurcated. The laser is the best method, as it gives the surgeon the ability to cauterize the wound as the laser cuts.

There is minimal bleeding until the surgeon is suturing the wound. At most, the process will take about 15-20 minutes to perform, and about 1-2 weeks for primary healing and 1 month for a fully healed tongue.

Tie-Off
This is an earlier method that requires a healed tongue piercing. You can actually try a few different methods within this one. Basically, you tie a loop through the healed piercing and leave one end of the loop on the first inside of the piercing with the other end on the tip of the tongue. You slowly tighten the loop as much as you can in one sitting, and then tighten more as you go along. The loop slowly works its way through the tongue. This will pose extreme discomfort as it is a gradual method of splitting your tongue; it requires a very high pain tolerance, as the glands around the ttongue tend to swell.

Some people will get multiple center tongue piercings and begin to stretch each healed piercing and then cutting the tissue in-between each piercing and the tip by using dental floss of sutures.

Scalpelling
Simply put, the tongue is split down the middle using a clean blade. This method is very bloody to the point where the bleeding can be hard to control. If you go to a professional, they may use an electrocautery pen or a branding tool to cut through the tongue.

In this case, it's recommended to have a healed, large-gauge tongue piercing to provide a good foundation for the split.

Cautery
Similar to scalpelling, except a heated blade or tool is used to burn through the tongue, which completely eliminates bleeding but increases peripheral damage and pain.

Suturing
The method requires a suture pulling at the top of the skin of the tongue down into the split, which leaves a rounded, more natural appearance.

When healing a split tongue, it's actually a relatively quick process. Primary healing is about 1-2 weeks, where the the split should be fully healed within one month, give or take.

You may experience a little regrowth, where the tongue is trying to heal back together, which is normal, and is very common when the split is a short split, but even in longer splits, it's not uncommon to experience a 50% closure. If you can keep the wound open, you can prevent your tongue from growing back together, but even still within the first year or so, you will experience some closure.

What may help is if you start with a large-gauge tongue piercing that has been fully healed, as this will anchor the split and can possibliy eliminated closure if the piercing marks the back of the split. The tongue will not try to heal itself around the barbell. so by having this healed back marker, you really only have to worry about the front half of the split from closing back up.

With any body modification, you want to be aware of the risks and health concerns. When referring to a tongue split, the risks can include:

* Secondary risks associated with the anesthesia (if performed in a medical environment)
* Extreme and potentially uncontrolled loss of blood if major blood vessels are hit (if performed in a non-medical environment)
* Damage to nerves and glands
* Infection
* Scarring
* Minor speech impediment

In a worse case scenario, if the tongue swells to an extreme size, it can possibly block the airway.

It is possible to reverse a tongue split by suturing the tongue back together to induce it to grow together. During the reversal operation, you may encounter scarring and other damages, to include permanent damages to tongue mobility. You may, also, suffer more nerve damage from the reversal procedure than the initial split.

It's highly recommended that if you think there's a possibility that you'll want to have a tongue split reversed, that you never get it done in the first place.

Side Note: Tongue splitting is accepted and legal everywhere except in the US military. They will either discharge anyone with their tongue split or will force them to undergo reversal surgery. But, even though the procedure is legal everywhere, there are a few states that have a pending legislation, so check your state legislations before you get yoru tongue split.

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Microdermal Implants

June 25th 2008 15:45

So here's just one more hardcore modification that once again involves implants. You've already seen subdermal implants, transdermal implants, and eyeball implants. Now, it's time to introduce microdermal implants.

Microdermal implants, which is also known as surface anchors have evolved from the techniques of pocketing, dermal anchoring, and transdermal implants. Basically, a microdermal implant is supposed to look like a transdermal implant, but be a realitively safe procedure, similar to body piercing. The end effect is to give the client the appearance that the jewelry is screwed into the skin.

Microdermal Anchors

The jewelry used is similar to transdermal anchors, but smaller. The base is flat with holes, which is supposed to aid stabilization of the jewelry. The tissues are meant to grow through and around the base of the jewelry, to increase stabilization and decrease risks of rejection. To minimize longterm risks, you want to make sure that the jewelry is made of titanium rather than a type of steel.

There are generally different styles of microdermal anchors. Some of them include:
1. One large hole with an longer, oval base.
2. One medium hole and one small hole on the other side of the screw with a oval base.
3. Two small holes on one side and one small hole on the other side of the screw with a oval shaped base
4. Two small holes on one side and one small hole on the other side of hte screw with a curved base.

The microdermal implant procedure is pretty simple. I've seen two different ways to have the implant inserted. The first method is by inserting a beveled piercing needle at an angle into the entry/exit point, and the second method is by using a dermal punch. With either procedure, the hole is made and the microdermal jewelry anchor is insterted into the hole and coerced into the correct placement.

Microdermal Anchor Procedure with Dermal Punch

Some say that the microdermal implant procedure is no more or less painful than getting a surface piercing. The procedure does not involve using anesthetics or specialized tools.

You just want to make sure that you go to a qualified person who is well versed in surface anchoring.

As for healing a microdermal implant, the exact aftercare is not pinpointed to a particular technique, as the procedure is still pretty new. But, for the most part, you'll want to make sure to keep the area clean, dry, and free if irritants. Don't use lotions or sprays near the area, and you don't want to go swimming until the impant is healed, which can take 1 to 3 months.

Surprisingly, the difference between microdermal implants and transdermal implants and surface piercings, is that the rejection rate is much less and the sucess rate higher.

The related risks that you want to be aware of include:
* Inward Travelling Infection
* Deep Microdermal Placement
* Rejection
* Keloids
* Hypertrophic Scarring
* Bruising (temporary usually)
* Implant Rejection

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Eyeball Tattoo

June 23rd 2008 14:32

If the eyeball implants didn't do it for you, check this out...

Tattooing your eye is not only possible, it's actually been performed for over 2,000 years (says BME), as it became popular and common in the 19th and 20th centuries to correct defects such as scarring and leucomas. It's actually much less common these days, as contacts cover up the same defects, and they're a lot less expensive and painful.

Cosmetic corneal tattooing by Heidi Lassiter, RN

But see that's actually semi-normal, so to speak, in that it's a medical procedure to correct a defect, but you can actually get the whites of your eyes tattooed

Basically the procedure can be done by hand using a tri-beveled needle and standard drawing ink, not tattoo ink. The needle is dipped in the ink and then poked at an angle into the eye. The eye must periodically be rinsed with saline as the work area gets covered with loose ink. This method has worked for about 90% of patients, but some say that this method doesn't hold the ink too well.

Another hand method is to use a needle and syringe and draw the ink into the syringe and slowly push the ink into the eye tissues at an angle.

Some places use a specialized tattoo machine with a three-needle configuration to tattoo the eye, as they feel it allows a more uniform depth pigmentation.

When healing an eye tattoo, the eye will probably feel irritated and dry. You may feel as though there's something stuck in the eye. You'll, also, experience redness. The actual healing time is the same as regular tattoos, an averaged week.

Eye tattoos are usually performed with a cosmetic tattoo artist and a ophthalmologist.

With any tattoo, you risk infection, so when you tattoo the white of the eye, you can potentionally risk your sight if an infection sets in.

You may just want to consider a custom contact lens instead of actually tattooing your sclera.

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Eyeball Jewelry Implant

June 22nd 2008 00:05

The eyeball implant, is commonly also reffered to as an eyeball piercing, although it is technically an implant. This is unlike the subdermal- and transdermal implants that I've discussed before. This particular implant has to be performed under a medical environment

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Transdermal Implants

June 17th 2008 17:16

Another form of body implants, other than subdermal implants, is transdermal implants. This form of body modification falls between pocketing and an implant. Basically, a labret stud- type jewelry planted in the skin, so that the flat back is under the skin and the screw is above the skin.

If you're interested in this type of piercing, you'll need to check the legality of the procedure in your area, as it depends on how the court system in your area interprets transdermals, as they are more complex than a basic piercing. The main concerns are legal issues regarding the use of anesthetics for non-practitioners

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Subdermal Implants

June 11th 2008 15:37

A subdermal implant is an interesting form of 3-D body art. Basically, you get an object implanted completely under the skin. You can even stretch these implants, by starting small and slowly replacing the small implant with a slightly larger one, until you've reaches the final size.

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Scarring and Scarification

May 27th 2008 16:33

Scarification is not as popular as other body modifications like tattoos, but it's an old modification just like tattoos are. The difference, I believe, is that scarification is a more extreme modification; it's one thing to get a tattoo, but to have someone cut you, brand your, or whatever, is seen as though you have a problem.

There are different forms of scarification that you can opt for, depending on the look that you're going for. The technique that you choose will probably alter the amount of pain that is entailed in getting the scar

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