• Both Nager syndrome and acro-facial dysostosis differ from aglossia adactylia in the kind of facial dysmorphia (in Nager syndrome the ears are malformed and malar hypoplasia is associated with downslanting palpebral fissures) and in the type of limb anomalies (preaxial defects are more common in Nager syndrome whereas transverse defects are more common in aglossia-adactyly). (orpha.net)
  • The characteristics of the facial profile consist of epicanthus, flattened nasal plan, palpebral fissures and protruding tongue. (bvsalud.org)
  • It is called plasma cell gingivitis where the gingiva (gums) are involved, plasma cell cheilitis, where the lips are involved, and other terms such as plasma cell orifacial mucositis, or plasma cell gingivostomatitis where several sites in the mouth are involved. (wikipedia.org)
  • On the lips, the condition appears as sharply outlined, infiltrated, dark red plaque with a lacquer-like glazing of the surface of the involved oral area. (wikipedia.org)
  • The lips appear dry, atrophic and fissured. (wikipedia.org)
  • Individuals who have Crohn's disease are more likely to have mouth sores between gums and lower lips, along with or under the tongue, ulcers, anal fissures, and fistulas -these aren't common in people with ulcerative colitis. (allieddigestivehealth.com)
  • Riboflavin deficiency (also called ariboflavinosis) results in stomatitis including painful red tongue with sore throat, chapped and fissured lips (cheilosis), and inflammation of the corners of the mouth. (reachingfordreams.com)
  • When sodomy is performed, the peculiar forced inward expansion of the anal canal results in a tearing of the lining as well as bleeding anal fissures. (fourwinds10.com)
  • However, other conditions, such as geographic tongue or food caught in the groove, can cause pain. (smilescare.com)
  • A person may also have geographic tongue. (smilescare.com)
  • Geographic tongue is when patches on the tongue become free of papillae, which are the tiny bumps on the surface of the tongue. (smilescare.com)
  • What is Geographic Tongue? (vitaminproguide.com)
  • The symptoms and appearance of geographic tongue can last a few days to several months or years. (vitaminproguide.com)
  • Often, geographic tongue resolves spontaneously on its own in one area only to have another lesion appear in a different location. (vitaminproguide.com)
  • Theres no way to predict how long an episode of geographic tongue will last or what causes it. (vitaminproguide.com)
  • These studies have shown that approximately 20% of patients with COVID-19 can present with mucosal manifestations in their oral cavities, including geographic tongue. (vitaminproguide.com)
  • Geographic tongue is also thought to appear alongside the onset of the regular symptoms of COVID-19. (vitaminproguide.com)
  • Geographic tongue is associated with elevated levels of IL-6, which possibly helps explain it's presentation on confirmed COVID-19 patients. (vitaminproguide.com)
  • The journal of dental medicine highlights that zinc effective in promoting healthy epithelial tissues and in the treatment of geographic tongue. (vitaminproguide.com)
  • That means that if you have Zinc deficiency you might as well end up with the geographic tongue and other oral problems. (vitaminproguide.com)
  • This problem occurs due to different problems including cancers, hernia, fissured tongue, oral candidiasis, type 2 diabetes, geographic tongue, neuropathy and many other diseases that involve various internal organs and surgeries. (herbal-care-products.com)
  • In geographic tongue , some areas of the tongue are red and smooth (like ulcers), often surrounded by a white border. (merckmanuals.com)
  • The cause is unknown, but fissured tongue may occur with geographic tongue and some other disorders. (merckmanuals.com)
  • The lesions can extend to involve the palate. (wikipedia.org)
  • The pattern of swelling, inflammation, ulcers, and fissures is similar to that of the lesions occurring in the intestinal tract. (medscape.com)
  • However, to the best of our knowledge, sarcoidosis-specific skin lesions have not to date been reported involving xanthelasma. (bvsalud.org)
  • The lesions first appeared on his face 2 years earlier and had slowly spread to involve most of his skin and mucous membranes ( Figure 1 ). (jamanetwork.com)
  • Particular focus will be made on the use of triggered and free-running electromyography (EMG) of extraocular muscles for lesions around the cavernous sinus and superior orbital fissure. (entokey.com)
  • Vascular problems presumed to result from these lesions would be more likely to occur in distal regions, such as the distal limbs, tongue, and occasionally parts of the brain. (orpha.net)
  • In 1982, Pelisse and colleagues reintroduced a similar variant of mucosal LP as the vulvovaginal-gingival syndrome with erosive lesions involving the oral and vulvovaginal mucosa [ 10 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • The disease can involve one small area of the gut or skip lesions. (hpathy.com)
  • Crohn disease is an idiopathic inflammatory disorder that can involve the entire GI tract with transmural inflammation and noncaseating granulomas. (medscape.com)
  • Crohn disease is an idiopathic disorder that can involve the entire GI tract with transmural inflammation, noncaseating granulomas, and fissures. (medscape.com)
  • Inflammatory bowel disease is the umbrella term used to describe disorders that involve chronic inflammation of the digestive tract. (allieddigestivehealth.com)
  • Crohn's disease is characterized by inflammation of the digestive tract that can involve the deeper layers of the digestive tract leading to other complications. (allieddigestivehealth.com)
  • They may also perform an endoscopy if the upper parts of your GI tract, like the esophagus, are involved in determining the site of inflammation. (allieddigestivehealth.com)
  • Malnutrition may also cause fissured tongue to occur. (smilescare.com)
  • Complications of fissured tongue typically occur if food or other debris get caught in the grooves. (smilescare.com)
  • Fissures or fistulas may occur in persons with chronic disease. (medscape.com)
  • Chromosomal disorder that can occur in a mosaic or nonmosaic expression, in which all major systems are significantly involved. (mhmedical.com)
  • Kawasaki disease is a vasculitis, sometimes involving the coronary arteries, that tends to occur in infants and children between the ages of 1 year and 8 years. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Black discoloration on the top of the tongue may occur if a person takes bismuth preparations for an upset stomach. (merckmanuals.com)
  • Fissures, cracks, and purplish patches (ecchymoses) appear frequently. (rarediseases.org)
  • in epithelial tissue - fissures, cracks in skin, keratosis. (rediscoverhealth.ca)
  • The prolapse generally starts out smooth and shiny but eventually dries out a bit, after which cracks called fissures develop. (vin.com)
  • The oral cavity is often involved in conditions that affect the GI tract. (medscape.com)
  • Dentists are involved with aspects of salivary gland function in several ways, such as diagnosing problems involving the major and minor salivary glands, in the management of oral dryness associated with salivary problems, in the treatment of caries and periodontal disease resulting from decreased salivary flow, and in controlling salivation during restorative procedures. (medscape.com)
  • The sublingual glands, under the tongue, produce about 5% of the total oral saliva. (medscape.com)
  • The best prevention against fissured tongue is to practice proper oral hygiene, including cleaning of the mouth at least twice a day and regular visits to the dentist. (smilescare.com)
  • Treatment typically involves routine oral care. (smilescare.com)
  • This article is intended as a general overview of conditions that have oral manifestations but also involve other organ systems. (medscape.com)
  • Good oral hygiene is always recommended, this means brushing your teeth and tongue twice a day, so long as your tongue is not sensitive or sore. (vitaminproguide.com)
  • This is actually because they get involved in every nook and also fissure of your oral cavity to clean out those hard-to-reach places. (linkrunway.com)
  • REPORT OF A CASE A 65-year-old man was referred for evaluation of a diffuse, pruritic eruption affecting his skin, conjunctiva, tongue, and oral cavity. (jamanetwork.com)
  • Objectives: Geographic stornatitis is a relatively common benign condition of the oral mucosa that mainly involves the dorsum and lateral borders of the tongue and rarely extraglossaly. (lml.com.ly)
  • Oral yeast infection or oral thrush is an infection of the mouth (tongue, inner cheek, lip, gums) or throat caused by the candida group of yeasts. (yeastinfection.org)
  • Along with anal fissure and syphilitic chancre, mucosal ulceration of the rectal area is common in homosexual males. (fourwinds10.com)
  • Tongue thrust and speech impediments - Tongue thrusts may produce an anterior open bite which stops the front teeth from meeting. (lysaghtdental.com)
  • A fissure sealant involves cleaning the grooves (fissures) of the teeth then flowing a thin tooth coloured resin based filling material into the grooves. (lysaghtdental.com)
  • Skin findings include knifelike fissures and ulcerations, as well as fistulae. (medscape.com)
  • SJS may involve the mucous membranes, including the eyes and gastrointestinal tract. (medscape.com)
  • Usually, the primary fissure occurs in the middle of the tongue. (smilescare.com)
  • Down syndrome results when abnormal cell division involving chromosome 21 occurs. (mayoclinic.org)
  • Depending on the location of the lesion and the cranial nerves involved, the choice of neuromonitoring techniques can vary. (entokey.com)
  • The pathologies involving the cavernous sinus and/or superior orbital fissure often threaten cranial nerves III, IV, & VI. (entokey.com)
  • It may also be extensive, involving the whole of the colon / small bowel. (hpathy.com)
  • The involved bowel loop is thickened and narrowed. (hpathy.com)
  • In most cases, fissured tongue will not cause any symptoms, so a person may not visit the dentist for this purpose. (smilescare.com)
  • Fissured tongue does not usually cause additional symptoms in most people. (smilescare.com)
  • There is no specific diagnosis for the Burning Tongue Syndrome because there are many symptoms of this disease which are related to other stomach or inner organs problems. (herbal-care-products.com)
  • Plasma cell gingivitis is a rare condition, appearing as generalized erythema (redness) and edema (swelling) of the attached gingiva, occasionally accompanied by cheilitis (lip swelling) or glossitis (tongue swelling). (wikipedia.org)
  • Sometimes it is blended with a marginal, plaque induced gingivitis, or it does not involve the free marginal gingiva. (wikipedia.org)
  • Posterior extension involves the soft palate, with possible velopharyngeal insufficiency and hypernasal speech. (medscape.com)
  • However, in tumors with posterior soft palate extension, retropharyngeal nodes may be involved. (medscape.com)
  • Common sites of extension include the tonsils, retromolar trigone, inferior or superior alveolar process, hard palate, and base of tongue. (medscape.com)
  • The tongue's papillae (tiny, rounded projections) may become discolored if a person smokes or chews tobacco, eats certain foods or vitamins, or has colored bacteria growing on the tongue. (merckmanuals.com)
  • In "hairy" tongue , keratin (a normal body protein that is in hair, skin, and nails) accumulates on the normal projections on the top of the tongue (papillae) and gives it a hairy appearance. (merckmanuals.com)
  • Hairy tongue may develop when food debris is trapped in the papillae when people do not clean their mouth adequately. (merckmanuals.com)
  • The tongue was enlarged and deeply fissured ( Figure 3 ). (jamanetwork.com)
  • In the tiny gap of white space between Fugen's request and his question there is narrative slippage, a textual fissure that allows us to peer more deeply into the motivating concerns and pivotal themes of the sutra. (ucpress.edu)
  • The bacteria trapped in the fissures can cause bad breath or promote tooth decay. (smilescare.com)
  • It involves tooth damage in the form of a crack or fissure. (businessmods.org)
  • Odontogenic cysts (cysts formed from tissues involved in tooth development). (thehorse.com)
  • Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome involves the association with facial nerve palsy. (medscape.com)
  • It is part of the spectrum of orofacial granulomatosis including Miescher-Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome (granulomatous cheilitis, facial palsy and fissuring of the tongue). (dermnetnz.org)
  • The tongue may be fissured and, rarely, facial nerve palsy can arise. (medicaljournals.se)
  • Tongue : Pale, moist, slightly fissured. (hpathy.com)
  • Once chronicity is established, the enlarged lip appears cracked and fissured, with reddish brown discoloration and scaling. (medscape.com)
  • Brushing the tongue with a toothbrush or scraping it with a tongue scraper can remove such discoloration. (merckmanuals.com)
  • A small blue-black discoloration on the underside of the tongue may be a tattoo caused by a fragment of dental amalgam filling material, which contains silver, becoming stuck in the tongue. (merckmanuals.com)
  • On the other hand, the alleged association with psoriasis was seen in one patient only in this study associating tongue conditions included 2 patients with macroglossia and another two with soglossia. (lml.com.ly)
  • Dental emergencies need not always involve pain, although it is a common sign of dental problems. (businessmods.org)
  • Occasionally, difficult labor and delivery may lead to a prolapse, such as if the vagina everts outward as part of the pressure and forces involved in giving birth. (vin.com)
  • The aim of this work is to elucidate some of the clinical aspects of this condition in a cohort of Libyan patients, with special regard to diagnosis and management of symptomatic cases as well as systemic disease associations and co-existence of other tongue conditions. (lml.com.ly)
  • Fissured tongue may appear for no apparent reason, but some people may have an underlying condition that doctor or dentist may need to rule out. (smilescare.com)
  • Plasma cell cheilitis usually involves the lower lip. (wikipedia.org)
  • The earliest manifestation of granulomatous cheilitis is sudden diffuse or occasionally nodular swellings of the lip or the face involving (in decreasing order of frequency) the upper lip, the lower lip, and 1 or both cheeks. (medscape.com)
  • A rare disease characterized by the association of aglossia (absence of tongue), adactylia (absence of fingers or toes) and limb, craniofacial and other, less frequent malformations. (orpha.net)
  • Which are the selective forces that drive bill and tongue shape, and associated sexually dimorphic traits? (researchgate.net)
  • One article published in Allied Academics looked at the frequency of fissured tongue in people in South Africa and Israel. (smilescare.com)
  • Scraping your tongue will remove 75% more bad breath molecules versus a toothbrush. (oxyfresh.com)
  • Translocation involves the long arm of acrocentric chromosomes. (bvsalud.org)
  • The mouth is frequently involved in conditions that affect the skin, but it is also affected by many systemic diseases. (medscape.com)
  • The mouth is frequently involved in conditions that affect the skin or other multiorgan diseases. (medscape.com)
  • Mostly in her eyes, under the tongue, and even her skin a bit. (mayathedragon.com)
  • Where the condition involves the tongue, there is an erythematous enlargement with furrows, crenation and loss of the normal dorsal tongue coating. (wikipedia.org)
  • Unfortunately, this usually involves hard-to-stick-with resolutions like swearing off sweets or exercising umpteen times a week. (oxyfresh.com)
  • Cutaneous lichen planus (CLP) most commonly involves the flexor surfaces of the extremities and presents as small itchy violaceous Papules in middle-aged adults. (hindawi.com)
  • Fissured tongue is a common condition. (smilescare.com)
  • Fissured tongue is most common in older people, although anyone can develop it. (smilescare.com)
  • The forehead, the eyelids, or 1 side of the scalp may be involved (less common). (medscape.com)
  • The most common distribution is a figure of 8 involving the vulva and perianal area. (rarediseases.org)
  • Intralesional application of triamcinolone did not appear suitable since not only the lower lip but also the cheeks were involved. (medicaljournals.se)
  • The absence of a strong gravitational effect for the tongue-filling mechanism is also better explained by the fluid trapping and elastic pumping models (see Rico-Guevara and Rubega 2011; . (researchgate.net)