Your tongue is naturally lumpy, but noticeable bumps on the back of the tongue signal an irritation, infection, or serious medical condition like HPV, syphilis, and cancer. Because tongue bumps range ...

More than 50% of people experience transient lingual papillitis, a benign form of tongue bumps. Stress and anxiety can cause tongue bumps by affecting your immune system. Bumps on the tongue could be ...

Three times in the past year, I got a canker sore while traveling. The pattern makes it easy to diagnose: The cuisines of the countries I had traveled to were heavy in tomato sauce, cheese, yogurt, ...

Those tiny white spots inside your mouth might be small in size, but they deliver pain far beyond their dimensions. Canker sores affect nearly everyone at some point, making simple pleasures like ...

Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is a common form of skin cancer that can affect the tongue. At stage 1, it is highly treatable. There may be a visible sore on the tongue, but not always. SCC is the most ...

If you happen to notice a white hue coating your tongue or a few white patches here and there, don’t panic. This condition, known as white tongue, is usually nothing to worry about. But in rare cases, ...