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A straight barbell is most popularly used in tongue piercings. The most common gauge used in tongue piercing is a 14 ga. In order to accommodate the swelling, the early length of the pierced barbell should be at least 3/4″. When the tongue rings piercing has become well, it can be changed to a shorter barbell of 9/16″, or 14 mm, which is the most usual size of tongue rings. Wearing a shorter barbell after the piercing is healed is suggested.

Barbell tongue ring style of body jewelry is made of a straight bar and with a bead on each end, one or both beads unscrewable for replacement and/or replacing of the beads. Either through epoxy or welding, often one of the beads is fixed, so that only one bead is used to fix or change the jewelry. Usually, there are only right-handed barbell threads.

There are roughly about 5 kinds of barbells for body jewelry. The insided threaded barbells are little bit more expensive than outer threaded barbells as there will be extra machining and labor involved. At the time of piercing of the tongue rings, the internally threaded barbells cause less damage or irritation, so it is considered superior to externally threaded barbells. An internally threaded barbell has a bead with a receiving tube machine into it which connects with a threaded post extending from the center.

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 receiving threads to be attached.

Curved barbells are also known as a navel curve and are named because of their curvature. It is mechanically identical to straight barbells except that they are curved. Curvature on a curved barbell tongue rings can range from about straight to circular, with some barbells basically being spiral, with the ends overlapping but departed to allow the insertion of the body jewelry. A variation on the curved barbell tongue ring design is a slightly curved barbell with a 90 degree bend near one end which is used in vertical navel piercings so the decorative end of the body jewelry is positioned more appropriately is called a J-bar. They can be either internally threaded or externally
threaded.
Circular barbell tongue rings, also famous as horseshoe barbell tongue rings are used in some kinds of piercings. They are named so due to their shape.

Surface bars are used in surface piercings. In order to use these barbell tongue rings 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 interfere with the healing is minimized.


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