Serpent tongue: developmental flaw and fashion

The human tongue is the muscular organ of taste, which also functions as an articulation of speech and swallowing. Its surface is covered with a mucosa and a mass of papillae, which serve to determine the taste of food. They are located on the surface unevenly. There are several areas of papilla concentration, each of which is responsible for determining any taste. The front part of the tongue defines sweet, lateral - sour, the back - bitter. In addition, on the entire surface are papillae reacting to saline.

Like any other organ in the human body, the language is prone to various kinds of diseases. They can be both congenital and acquired. The most common diseases of the tongue are in humans:

• Candidiasis stomatitis. It is an infectious fungal disease that affects the tongue and the entire oral cavity.
• Leukoplakia. Characterized by the formation of white plaques. Most often occurs in smokers.
• Lichen. It appears as white lace lines. The mechanism of occurrence is unknown.

Congenital diseases include macroglossy, in which the language is greatly increased in size. In addition, sometimes such congenital and acquired defects as:

• Folded tongue. Folds appear on the back and sides of the organ. Their arrangement resembles a vein of a leaf of a tree.
• Black villous tongue. It occurs only in adult men. The mechanism of this disease is unknown.
• Snake language. In this case, the organ is bifurcated, resembling the language of the reptile.

Since the language has a very high degree of ability to heal, following the trends of fashion, many young people resort to various modifications of it: punctures and cuts.

Recently, artificially made snake tongue is very popular. During the operation, the tongue is simply cut in the front part into two halves. A special glamor in the youth environment is the ability to wiggle the resulting parts separately. Often a decorative ring is inserted into each such half.

Having made himself a snake tongue, in addition to the ambiguous attitude to this kind of modification of the body from others, a young man does not risk anything at all. All functions of this body remain working. The taste is felt exactly the same as before the operation, speech and swallowing it also does not affect.

The operation itself, after which the interested person receives a fashionable snake tongue, is quite complicated and is done under anesthesia. Only a specialist can conduct it. The main danger lies in the fact that two arteries pass through the cutting site of the tongue. Their damage is fraught with heavy bleeding and even, perhaps, death. Care during healing is exactly the same as after the puncture. Recommended daily rinsing of the mouth with any disinfectant.

Defect of development or a smart "chip" - concepts are sometimes relative. People have long resorted to modifications of their body for a variety of purposes. Once it was done more often on the basis of religious motives, worshiping some gods, now - following the fashion.