In the past couple years, oral piercings have surpassed even the navel piercing as the most popular and most visible piercings in the US. Once viewed as sexually suggestive, tongue and lip piercings are now almost commonplace fashion in most communities. In the following sections, we try to answer the questions you may have about tongue, lip, labret, beauty mark and cheek piercings, and give you some idea of what you are in for if you choose to get and heal one. While healing oral piercings is not difficult, it is different than any other body part, and can be a bit odd if you donÕt know what to expect. So here's the scoop...