Tongue Anomalies Occurrence in Patients from Collage of Dentistry/University of Baghdad 2018-2019

Abstract

To evaluate the occurrence of the most common tongue developmental anomalies in patients attending the teaching hospital of the University Of Baghdad\ College Of Dentistry and determine their distribution between males and females (2018-2019).Examination of 700 patients was done clinically by the use of probe and dental mirror. The patients age that was included was from (30-39) years old. The developmental anomalies were more in females (66%) than males and were widely distributed at age of 39years (20%), while the lowest percentage was recorded at the age of 30 (2.6%). The most widely distributed anomalies of the tongue was the fissure tongue 40%. The anomalies that were found to be most prevalent were fissure tongue and followed by geographic tongue and some of them were associated with each other and they found to be increasing with age. They were more in females than in males.