Piercing of the earlobes has been performed in both sexes for thousands of years for social, religious, and cosmetic purposes in the most primitive as well as the most affluent cultures. Ancient Indian writings’ describe the need for repair of the cleft earlobe. During the past decade, there has been a resurgence of body piercing by in both men and women. Body art in the form of multiple pierci...

Given a finite family F of convex sets in R, we say that F has the (p, q)r property if for any p convex sets in F there are at least r q-tuples that have non empty intersection. The piercing number of F is the minimum number of points we need to intersect all the sets in F . In this paper we willl find some bounds for the piercing number of families of convex sets with (p, q)r properties.

This paper is discussing the potential consequences that may arise by the implementation of piercing in the oral cavity and is also categorizing the consequences according to their extent and severity. Furthermore, this paper is reviewing some possible oral hygiene methods that can prove to be auxiliary in decreasing the potential complications arising from oral piercing. This literature review...

Piercing invades subcutaneous areas and has a high potential for infectious complications. The number of case reports of endocarditis associated with piercing is increasing. We studied a 25-year-old man with a pierced tongue, who arrived at Memorial Health University Medical Center with fever, chills, rigors, and shortness of breath of 6 days' duration and had an aortic valvuloplasty for correc...

A 43-year old man presented with chest pain and fever. He had inadvertently inhaled a nasal piercing which caused injury to the descending aorta through the left bronchus. The resulting pseu-doaneurysm was treated with endovascular stenting after left carotido-subclavian bypass (Figs 1 and 2). The patient died 2 years later due to drug overdose. Figure 1: CT scan showing the false aneurysm (ast...

The present paper attempts to explore the body in relation theatricality Bode Jatra, tongue-piercing festival of Newar community Bode, Bhaktapur. study treats as territorial site foreground how performance becomes theatrical, taking performativity tongue-piercing, its text. raving tongue piercing generates an expression cosmogonic consciousness. It encompasses movement both from micro and macro...