A burning tongue or a burning mouth are both irritating conditions that have several different causes. A sore tongue is often less painful and less serious. Geographic tongue causes unsual patches on the tongue that move around and change shape but is usually a painless problem, however, it does not always cause a swollen tongue. A scalloped tongue or tongue groove has indentations on the sides of the tongue. A black tongue has a black stained coating which usually scrapes off easily. A tongue bite can often make these problems much worse. However, tongue biting can often be difficult to control. A swollen taste bud does not often develop into a bump on tongue which is much more serious and could be a sign of early tongue cancer.
An abscessed tooth requires abscess tooth treatment to avoid an abscess tooth complication. If left untreated, a draining fistula can develop. Bad breath can be very aggravating and most patients with chronic bad breath seek a bad breath cure. However, the cause of bad breath must be determined for an effective bad breath treatment. Oral thrush and trench mouth often occur when a patient is medically compromised. Mouth Thrush is a serious sign that there is something wrong and the source of every mouth yeast infection should be found.
Lots of lesions occur in the mouth. The most common are canker sores and cold sores. Oral Herpes is a virus that can effect the oral tissues in and many patients call them cold sore herpes. Mouth ulcers can be very annoying but they are not mouth cancer, however, every suspicious mouth sore should be investigated by a dentist. Many patients confuse an exostosis with oral cancer but it is a normal out growth of bone.
Oral habit such as thumb sucking can cause developmental and orthodontic problems and recently we have seen a number of fractured teeth from tongue piercing. Tongue piercing can also interfere with tongue kissing.
A dry mouth can cause dental caries. Sinus tooth pain can be confused and mistaken for toothache pain. These patients often have nasal congestion that blocks the nose and forces the patient to switch from nasal breathing to mouth breathing. Post nasal drip causes blood to stick to the surfaces of the throat causing a metallic taste in mouth. However, there are many other causes for a bad taste in the mouth.
Many patients are concerned about mercury filling materials and mercury poisoning symptoms. Another concern is the possibility of a heart attack from a dental infection caused by not using antibiotic prophylaxis during a dental procedure. A sinus toothache can cause tooth pain and tooth sensitivity which can not be eliminated with a home remedy for a toothache.
A number of medical conditions effect the oral region. Sjogren's Syndrome dries out the mouth and causes tooth decay among other problems. Thyroid Problems contribute to muscle spasm and aggravate existing TMJ problems. Trigeminal Neuralgia and Atypical Trigeminal Neuralgia cause pain in the oral and facial region. Bulimia causes a patient to purge and has several bulimia effects such as bulimia tooth decay. Dr. Padolsky has a dental bulimia tip that can provide bulimia help to patients with Bulimia Nervosa reduce the amount of dental bulimia treatment. The most serious dental danger of bulimia is loss of all the teeth so that taking every sign of bulimia seriously is very important.
Oral sex obviously effects the oral and dental area and has developed unusual uses for the traditional rubber dam. Dental X-Rays today are safe, especially the Panoramic X-ray which only has 10% of the radiation that a full mouth series exposes a patient to. The original name was a Panorex x-ray which is a trade name for the SSWhite x-ray machine. A dental xray is often essential to a dentist's diagnosis since without an xray picture, mistakes can be made.