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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,987
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/28/2005 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Jewelry |
| PIERCED LIP A WEEK AGO, TODAY LOST EARRING BACK IN PIERCING SITE/LIP RI NG REMOVED, INFECTION AT SITE OF PIERCING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/22/2005 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Jewelry |
| HAD TONGUE PIERCED BY FRIEND WITH EARRING AND BLEEDING AND INFECTED NOW |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/01/2005 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Hemorrhage |
| Product: Jewelry |
| HAD TONGUE PIERCED FOR RING, NOW C BLEEDING SINCE " BLEEDING TONGUE" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/30/2005 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Jewelry |
| LIP PIERCING DX: ACUTE CHIN CELLULITIS R/O MRSA, ACUTE GINGIVITIS & DE NTALGIA 2ND ARY TO PIERCING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/26/2005 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Jewelry |
| TONGUE RING.PT WAS EATING AND TONGUE RING PULLED OUT AND LACERATED TONG UE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/26/2005 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Jewelry |
| PAIN TO LIP FROM LIP RING DX: INFECTION TO LIP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/22/2005 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Jewelry |
| TONGUE FB-TONGUE PIERCING DONE-TONGUE GREW AROUND THE FLAT RING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/15/2005 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Jewelry |
| TONGUE INJ. PT DEVELOPED PAIN FROM TONGUE RING PIERCING. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/27/2005 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Jewelry |
| DX TONGUE PUNCTURE WOUND: GOT TONGUE PIERCED, NOW BLEEDING. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/19/2005 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Jewelry |
| HAD TONGUE PIERCED YESTERDAY, AREA AROUNDTONGUE RING RED WITH DRAINAGE/ TONGUE INFECTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/17/2005 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Jewelry |
| DX: INFECTED LIP PEIRCING/ LIP RING, REACTIVE LYMPH NODE, PAIN, SWELLIN G, DRAINING PUS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/14/2005 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Jewelry |
| PAIN/SWELLING LOWER LIP, PIERCED ON 101/2, UNABLE TO REMOVE IT DX: INFECTED LOWER LIP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/14/2005 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Jewelry |
| PT FELT STING TO TONGUE WHILE DRINKING SODA DX: TONGUE RING INFECTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/27/2005 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Dental Injury |
| Product: Jewelry |
| BIT TONGUE RING, BROKE TOOTH, PAIN DX: TOOTH FX |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/18/2005 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Jewelry |
| TONGUE RING AREA BLEEDING.PT HAD A TONGUE RING PLACED AND BLEEDING. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/07/2005 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Jewelry |
| PT WITH TONGUE PAIN SINCE PIERCINGS 3 DAYS AGO. D: TONGUE INFECTION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/03/2005 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Jewelry |
| TONGUE PIERCING.PTS TONGUE IS RED AND SWOLLEN AFTER PIERCING WITH EARRI NG. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/27/2005 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Jewelry |
| PT IS BEING SEEN FOR BLEEDING AFTER HAVING TONGUE PEIRCED = STUD IN TON GUE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/20/2005 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Jewelry |
| FRIEND PIERCED PATENT'S TONGUE LAST WEEK, TONGUE WITH RING HAS PAIN, WH ITE DISCHARGE AT PIERCING SITE; INFECTED TONGUE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/19/2005 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Jewelry |
| PT WANTS TONGUE RING OUT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/18/2005 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Jewelry |
| HAD LIP PIERCING, NOW SKIN GROW OVER THE RING. " FB REMOVAL" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/14/2005 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Jewelry |
| TONGUE BAR PULLED THROUGH BOTTOM OF TONGUE. FOREIGN BODY REMOVAL TON GUE THIS IS PART OF A TONGUE RING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/13/2005 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Jewelry |
| FB RIGHT UPPER LIP. PT GOT A PIECE OF JEWELRY STUCK INSIDE LIP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/13/2005 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Jewelry |
| EARLY TONGUE CELLULITIS/17YOM C/O NECK, THROAT PAIN AND TONGUE SWOLLEN WITH PAIN FOR PAST WEEK. CHILLS LAST PM. HAD TONGUE PIERCING 2 WKS AGO. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/11/2005 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Jewelry |
| TONGUE RING STUCK IN TONGUE DX: FOREIGN BODY REMOVED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/07/2005 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Jewelry |
| LIP PIERCING IS STUCK ON PTS RETAINER ; SWOLLEN LIP. D: S/P REMOVAL P LASTIC RETAINER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/06/2005 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Jewelry |
| TONGUE PIERCING RING TONGUE OOZING FOREIGN BODY REMOVAL TONGUE BARBELL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/26/2005 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Jewelry |
| PT TOOK OUT TONGUE PIERCING, WHILE ATTEMPTING TO RE-INSERT IT BLOOD VES SEL POPPED OUT UNDER TONGUE DX:PROB BLOOD VESSEL PROTRUDING FROM TONGUE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/24/2005 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Dental Injury |
| Product: Jewelry |
| CHIPPED TOOTH ON BALL OF TONGUE RING/ DENTAL INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/21/2005 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Jewelry |
| ACCIDENTLY HIT IN MOUTH. LOWER LIP SWELLED AROUND RING. FOREIGN BODY LIP. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/13/2005 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Jewelry |
| FOREIGN BODY LOWER LIP-C/O PAIN IN LOWER LIP AFTER TRYING TO REMOVE PIE RCINGS. STUCK IN LOWER LIP AND NOSE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/22/2005 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Jewelry |
| LACERATION TONGUE-SUS INJ TO TONGUE WHEN TONGUE JEWELRY GOT CAUGHT IN B RACES. UNABLE TO STOP BLEEDING. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/19/2005 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Jewelry |
| PT TONGUE RING IS INFECTED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/16/2005 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Dental Injury |
| Product: Jewelry |
| DENTAL INJURY - CRACKED TOOTH - PATIENT REPORTS THAT BOTH BACK UPPER MO LARS BROKE WHEN SHE BIT HER TONGUE RING THIS AM - TOOTH PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/08/2005 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Jewelry |
| FB TONGUE ;REQUEST TONGUE PIERCING STUD REMOVAL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/01/2005 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Jewelry |
| PT WITH SWOLLEN TONGUE AT SITE OF TONGUE RING. D: RETAINED FOREIGN BODY TONGUE RING, ABSCESS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/21/2005 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Jewelry |
| PT. HAS AN INFECTION OF HER TONGUE WHICH SHE HAD PIERCED INFECTED TONGUE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/11/2005 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Jewelry |
| PT HAD BOTTOM LIP PIERCED 3 WKS AGO & HIT VESSEL WHICH KEPT BLEEDING. P IERCING OUT X1 WEEK. NOW W/ OCCASIONAL BLEEDING. D:LIP BLOOD VESSEL INJ |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/09/2005 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Jewelry |
| 18 YO - DX: FOREIGN BODY RT. UPPER LIP - SWOLLEN UPPER LIP FROM PIERCIN G - EARRING IN LIP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/04/2005 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Jewelry |
| PT TONGUE IS BLEEDING FROM BEING PIERCED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/25/2005 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Puncture |
| Product: Jewelry |
| PT HAD TONGUE PIERCED ON FRIDAY. NOW INFECTED. HAD EYEBROW PIERCED YEST ERDAY. D: INFECTED TONGUE PIERCING. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/24/2005 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Jewelry |
| PATIENT REPORTS LIP PIERCING ON FRIDAY - COMPLAINS OF LIP SWELLING, BLE EDING AND PUS - UNABLE TO REMOVE LIP RING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/23/2005 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Hemorrhage |
| Product: Jewelry |
| PT HAS LIP BLEEDING. HAD LIP PIERCED 4 DAYS AGO AND HIT ON LIP TODAY. I NTENT UNSTATED. D: LIP PIERCE BLEED. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/28/2005 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Jewelry |
| PT GOT TONGUE PIERCED FOT A RING,NOW C INCREASING TONGUE SWELLING SUSTA INED" INFECTED TONGUE RING" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/21/2005 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Jewelry |
| PT HAD A LIP PIERCING AND IT GOT INFECTED. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/18/2005 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Jewelry |
| LOWER LIP INFECTION-@ SITE OF RECENT PIERCING-JEWELRY REMOVED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/15/2005 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Jewelry |
| TONGUE LAC, PT WAS WRESTLING AND TONGUE RING WAS RIPPED OUT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/13/2005 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Jewelry |
| PT HAD TONGUE PIERCED 2 DAYS AGO, TOOK EARRING STUD OUT, BLEEDING INCRE ASED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/27/2005 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Dental Injury |
| Product: Jewelry |
| PT EATING POPCORN WHEN HIS TOOTH BROKE ALSO HAS A TONGUE RING WHICH MAD E THE SITUATION WORSE RIGHT UPPER MOLAR INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/22/2005 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Jewelry |
| PT STATES, HAD TONGUE RING PLACED 5 DAYS AGO, NOW TONGUE IS SWOLLEN&RED 'SUSTAINED" TONGUE INFECTION'' |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/30/2005 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Jewelry |
| TONGUE TRAUMA-REMOVED TONGUE RING TODAY AND NOW IS UNABLE TO STOP BLEED ING. |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 01/19/2005 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Jewelry |
| PT SUST FOREIGN BODY (LIP RING) TO LIP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/10/2005 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Jewelry |
| TONGUE BARBELL GOT STUCK INSIDE PT'S TONGUE. DX: TONGUE BARBELL STUCK IN TONGUE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
|