1Graduate Student, Department of Oral and maxillofacial Pathology, Saveetha Dental College, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences (SIMATS), Saveetha University, Chennai
2Senior Lecturer, Department of Oral and maxillofacial Pathology, Saveetha Dental College, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences (SIMATS), Saveetha University, Chennai
The presence of developmental anomalies on the tongue is relatively common reason that patients visit dental clinics. Diagnosis of a wide variety of developmental anomalies is an essential part of a daily dental practice.
The aim of this study was to evaluate the type and prevalence of developmental anomalies of tongue in patients in South Indian population.
A total of 800 patients were screened for developmental tongue lesions. The developmental tongue lesions were found in 32 of 800 patients examined. The prevalence pattern was examined.
The most prevalent tongue lesion was found to be fissured tongue 14(44%). The least prevalent was found to be macroglossia 1(%). The tongue lesions such as microglossia, hairy tongue and lingual nodule were not present. The developmental tongue lesions were found to be more in males (75%) than females (25%) in the survey.
Developmental Tongue lesions, Ankyloglossia, fissured tongue, Bifid tongue, geographic tongue, median rhomboid glossitis, macroglossia, microglossia, hairy tongue
