ALLMedicine™ Geographic Tongue Center

Dec 12th, 2022 - Institutionalized children, regardless of their age, are prone to psychiatric disorders, compared to those who live in two-parent families, due to the unfavorable physical and psychological conditions in which they develop. Unpropitious psychologi...

Dec 4th, 2022 - Geographic Tongue (GT) is a benign inflammatory disorder of unknown etiology, which is characterized by the loss of epithelium due to the atrophy of filiform papillae. It usually occurs on the dorsum of the tongue and may extend to its lateral edg...

Oct 22nd, 2022 - Contemporary literature has revealed that Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) causes acute sialadenitis and related symptoms, such as discomfort, pain, swelling, and secretory dysfunction in salivary glands. The secretory ...

Oct 9th, 2022 - To identify the prevalence of geographic tongue in patients >18 years. A systematic literature review was performed in search of population-based observational studies. Searches were performed using five main databases: Embase, LILACS, PubMed, Sco...

Oct 7th, 2022 - Oral manifestations of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), including ulcers, herpetiform lesions, macules, and petechiae, among others, are becoming increasingly recognized, but there is little guidance on their treatment. Reported cases have des...

Jul 14th, 2020 - Oral and maxillofacial pathology in pediatric patients differs from the general population, as the nature of lesions in children changes with growth and development. Oral and maxillofacial pathology encompasses a wide spectrum of diseases, some of...

Oct 19th, 2011 - Allergic rhinitis is a complex chronic inflammatory disease, it always presents with nasal obstruction, nasal itching, sneezing and runny nose. Whether in adults or children, rhinitis is a complex disease. The prevalence of allergic rhinitis in Ta...

Mar 3rd, 2022 - Well-demarcated, map-like tongue markings are consistent with migratory glossitis, also called geographic tongue, and can be recognized by its distinct clinical appearance. If performed, a biopsy would show psoriasiform mucositis.

Sep 6th, 2019 - THE CASE A 49-year-old woman presented to our clinic with concerns about the changing appearance of her tongue over the past 2 to 3 weeks. She had been given a diagnosis of celiac disease by her gastroenterologist approximately 5 years earlier.

Feb 6th, 2017 - Psoriasis is a chronic, relapsing, inflammatory systemic disorder of the skin with an incidence of 2% to 3% and is estimated to affect 125 million individuals worldwide. 1 Environmental triggers of disease modulation may include cutaneous microbiot.

Aug 1st, 2016 - A previously healthy 35-year-old woman presented with reddish discoloration of her tongue for the past 7 days, accompanied by mild soreness over the area when eating spicy foods. The lesion had also changed shape repeatedly.

Apr 10th, 2014 - The FP recognized that the patient had a fissured tongue, and it was likely that she’d had these fissures since birth or early childhood. The FP reassured the patient that the condition has no negative health consequences.