Statistically significant difference was found between diabetic and non-diabetic patients in association with dental caries, periodontal disease, xerostomia, burning sensation, candidiasis, missing teeth, geographic tongue, taste abnormalities, impacted third molars and lichen planus.
Your tongue looks like a map A patchy geographic tongue could be due to smoking or a vitamin or iron deficiency, but it could also be the result of gastric tract damage due to coeliac disease, for example.
The most prevalent oral lesions in asthmatics group were geographic tongue 10(10%), fissured tongue 13(13%), chronic atrophic candidiasis13(13%), and in the control group were fissured tongue(11%) and lichenoid reaction(2%).
Benign oral mucosal lesions included a diagnosis of coated tongue fissured tongue geographic tongue melanin pigmentation linea alba and fordyces granules.
Signs such as angular stomatitis (Female: 2.5% Male: 6.5% p<0.05) and geographic tongue (Female: 0.9% Male: 4.8% p<0.05) were significantly more observed in males than in females.
The geographic tongue is usually asymptomatic, but sometimes an irritation sensation is reported as a result of using the spicy and salty foods as well as the alcoholic drinks.
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