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A woman bit the tongue off the man she was kissing after she asked him to stop using it but he continued to anyway.

Youlette Wedgeworth, 52, sank her teeth into her lover's tongue during the horrifying incident on January 28.

She had requested that he did not use his tongue as part of the kiss.

When he ignored her request, she bit down – removing around an inch of the victim’s tongue.

Detroit police were called to the scene in Center Line, Michigan.

They found the man in his bedroom bleeding profusely from the mouth and missing a sizeable chunk of tongue. Officers managed to find the piece of tongue and took it, and the victim, to hospital.

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Macomb County prosecutor Eric J. Smith told radio station WXYZ: "I believe this is the first case of this nature in my 27 years in the prosecutor's office.

“Our defendant told our victim not to stick his tongue in her mouth, and he did. She didn’t like it, so she bit the tip of his tongue clean off.

“It’s a first. During the course of consensual kissing, someone bites someone’s tongue off – off, gone, holding it when the police pulled up.”

“This wasn’t a push or a punch or a nibble,” Smith said. “This was blood, pieces of tongue and the police and ambulance. It turned crazy in a very short amount of time.”

Wedgeworth has been charged with aggravated assault, a misdemeanour punishable by up to a year in jail and a fine of up to $1,000 (£800).

A pre-trial conference has been scheduled for February 19.

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Amputation of the tongue can be potentially life-threatening because of the massive bleeding involved.

However there are cases on record of a severed tongue being successfully reattached 16 hours after being removed.

(Image: Macomb County Sheriff's Office)

One of the first was in 1997 when a boy, aged 16, completely lost his tongue in a San Francisco car accident. The lad was riding in a car with friends when it hit a tree throwing him out of the vehicle.

When the boy’s father was called to the scene, he found his son’s tongue on the back seat of the car.

In a pioneering operation, a surgical team led by Dr. Harry J. Buncke, at San Francisco's Ralph K. Davies Medical Centre successfully reattached the tongue, using a section of vein from the boy’s foot to restore blood supply.