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A straight barbell is most popularly used in tongue piercings. 14 Ga is the most common gauge used for tongue ring piercing. 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 replaced to a smaller barbell of 9/16″, or 14 mm, which is the most common size of tongue rings. It is recommended to wear a shorter barbell after the tongue piercing is healed.

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 changing 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. Barbell threads are mostly right-handed.

There are roughly about 5 kinds of barbells for body jewelry. The insided threaded barbells are slightly more expensive than outer threaded barbells as there will be extra machining and labor included. It is also considered superior to the external barbells as it is less likely to cause damage or irritation especially at the time of piercing. 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 permit beads with receiving threads to be attached.

Named because of the curvature, curved barbells can also be known as a navel curve. It is mechanically same to straight barbells instead of that they are curved. Curvature on a curved barbell tongue rings can range from almost straight to circular, with some barbells actually being spiral, with the ends overlapping but separated to permit the insertion of the body jewelry. A variations on this design is a J-bar, a slightly curved barbell, sometimes referred to as a banana bell or banana barbell, with a 90 degree bend near one end, used in vertical navel piercings to position the decorative end of the body jewelry more appropriately. These barbells can be internally or externally threaded.
Circular barbell tongue rings, also famous as horseshoe barbell tongue rings are used in some types of piercings. Their shape is what gives them their name.

In all surface piercings, surface bars are used. Barbells for surface piercing have a pair of 90 degree bends in the same direction, so they can be used for surface piercing. 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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