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Spring Valley High School students have been using sewing needles and paper clips to pierce fellow students’ ears, navels and nipples at home and at school, Clark County School District officials said ...

The body piercing procedure is relatively quick and simple. Body piercing artists, not medical providers, perform body piercing; therefore local anesthetic use is contraindicated. Anesthesia is not ...

Most of the professional piercers at your neighborhood studio are using single-use needles. They’re typically hollow with a triangular tip that’s razor-sharp, designed to create a precise opening for ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When it comes to body piercing, the formerly fringe procedure that has moved into the mainstream, medical experts have a message: Don’t try this at home. Or ...