Labret
An ornament worn in a piercing of the lip, from a small stud to a large disc.
Also: lip plug, lip piercing
A labret is any ornament fixed through a piercing in or below the lip. In Mesoamerica, Aztec and Maya nobles wore labrets of gold, jade and obsidian. Women of the Tlingit and Haida peoples of the Pacific Northwest once wore wooden labrets as marks of status, and Inuit men wore stone labrets at the corners of the mouth. Small studs below the lip are a common piercing in many countries today.