The Occurrence of Tongue Lesions among Dental Outpatients Attending Khanzad Dental Polyclinics Center in Erbil City

Rawa Hameed Mirkhan Abdulla,Ali Fakhree Alzubaidee

doi:10.26505/djm.19025360513

Abstract

Background: The tongue can be targeted by a wide range of pathological conditions; the recognition of tongue lesions may be helpful in the early diagnosis of some systemic disorders. Objective: To determine the frequency and relation of the tongue conditions with risk factors among a group of dental outpatients attending a specialized dental polyclinics center in Erbil city, for individuals who are aware of their tongue lesion when to exist, and to estimate the possible coincidence between some of the tongue lesions with age, gender, smoking, alcohol drinking habit, allergic reactions, and systemic diseases. Patients and Methods: 1100 patients were examined for a period of 3 months from October 1st , 2019 – December 31st , 2019. Results: The frequency of tongue conditions was 52.8%, the study sample consists of 520 males 47.3%, and 580 females 52.7%. The age range was from 0.58 to 85 years, and 112 patients had one or more systemic diseases 92 of them were on regular medications. The most common frequent condition was fissured tongue diagnosed in 420 patients 38.2%. Conclusion: The common risk factors for tongue conditions in this study were old age, male gender, smoking, alcohol consumption, and medication intake, around one quarter (25.6%) of the sample has a family history of tongue condition. Keywords: Tongue conditions, fissured tongue, clinical study, coated tongue

Highlights

The human tongue as a part of oral tissue is the tongue is one of the most crucial organs considered the strongest and highly muscular in the body since it is engaged in swallowing, complex organ anatomically located in the tasting, speech, and respiration [3,4]
The occurrence of different tongue lesions has been abundantly studied previously where it has been noticed that the tongue can be targeted by a wide range of pathological conditions, the recognition of tongue lesions may be helpful in the early diagnosis of some hormonal, allergic or systemic disorders, and it could be the first manifestation of the disorder [5, 6]
The aims of this study were to determine the frequency of the tongue conditions in different age groups among outpatients attending Khanzad dental polyclinics center in Erbil city, for individuals who are aware of their tongue lesion when exist, and to estimate the possible coincidence between some of the tongue lesions with age, gender, smoking, alcohol drinking habit, allergic reactions, and systemic diseases

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Introduction

The human tongue as a part of oral tissue is the tongue is one of the most crucial organs considered the strongest and highly muscular in the body since it is engaged in swallowing, complex organ anatomically located in the tasting, speech, and respiration [3,4]. The aims of this study were to determine the frequency of the tongue conditions in different age groups among outpatients attending Khanzad dental polyclinics center in Erbil city, for individuals who are aware of their tongue lesion when exist, and to estimate the possible coincidence between some of the tongue lesions with age, gender, smoking, alcohol drinking habit, allergic reactions, and systemic diseases. Objective: To determine the frequency and relation of the tongue conditions with risk factors among a group of dental outpatients attending a specialized dental polyclinics center in Erbil city, for individuals who are aware of their tongue lesion when to exist, and to estimate the possible coincidence between some of the tongue lesions with age, gender, smoking, alcohol drinking habit, allergic reactions, and systemic diseases.

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