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New trend has seen people ditching wedding rings in favour of finger piercings

The piercings are called dermal piercings and feature diamonds or simple bars

Brides have proudly flaunted their bejewelled fingers on social media

Couples are ditching traditional wedding rings in favour of piercings on their ring fingers in a painful new social media trend.

Brides and grooms from around the world have taken to Instagram to share snaps of studs and rings implanted into their wedding finger.

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While some of the jewellery boasted simple diamonds, others featured more intricate rings and bars protruding underneath the skin.

Dermal piercings usually consist of two pieces - a flat plate which sits beneath the skin, and a changeable piece of jewellery which is visible on the surface.

But the piercings don't come without their risks, with dermatologists warning that if the anchor is not place deep enough the piercing will start moving, but if it is placed too deep the skin will begin to grow over the piercing.

Here, FEMAIL takes a look at the toe-curling trend...

A painful new trend has emerged which sees wedded women- and couples- ditching traditional rings in favour of piercings on their ring finger (single stud seen)

Some couples even showed off their matching piercings, opting for very permanent markings to celebrate their vows

While some of the jewellery boasted simple diamonds, others featured more intricate rings and bars (pictured) protruding underneath the skin

Men were seen getting into the trend too in a plethora of pictures shared online

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The piercings don't come without their risks, with dermatologists warning that if the anchor is not place deep enough the piercing will start moving, known as migration

This tattooed fellow showed off the simple silver stud on his wedding finger

The movement has seen an increasing number of images shared to Instagram, which show studs and rings implanted into their wedding finger (triple studs seen)

The piercings don't come without their risks, with dermatologists warning that if the anchor is not place deep enough the piercing will start moving, known as migration, but if it is placed too deep the skin will begin to grow over the piercing, known as embedding.

Dermal piercings usually consist of two pieces- a flat plate which sits beneath the skin and is connected to a changeable piece of jewellery which is visible on the surface

But if it is placed too deep the skin will begin to grow over the piercing, known as embedding (bar pictured)

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