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At a recent medical conference, a team of radiologists presented intriguing X-ray evidence of a psychological phenomenon - what they believed was a new form of self-injury among teens and adolescents. Eleven out of 505 patients whom the team had treated in more than a decade had inserted objects under their skin in a behavior the Nationwide team labeled "self-embedding." At the time of the conference, a reporter uncovered two more instances of self-embedding in an Illinois town - two teen girls had deliberately inserted pencils into their skin and broken off the tips - lending credence to the possibility that self-embedding was a growing trend, albeit off the radar. "We know it's elsewhere," says Shiels, who is creating a protected database for medical professionals worldwide to track the behavior. "It just hasn't been discussed and it hasn't been studied."
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