Tongue piercing occured during the ancient Mayan, Aztec and Incan
era in the Americas.  Stone carvings at ruins depict priests using
tongue piercing as part of bloodletting rituals.

Today, we perform tongue piercing as a form of decoration and utility.
Tongue piercing is done at Warrior using state of the art modern
steel alloys and sterilization techniques.
 

Tongue piercing is done with a 14 gauge barbell  with a length long enough to deal with any swelling of the tissues of the tongue	The webbing of the tongue (lingual frenulum)  may be pierced as well, as this photo shows with a 16 gauge CBR (captive bead ring).