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Hello, I am Dr. Nickols M. It's a pleasure to attend to your question. Thank you very much for your trust in just answer
Can you tell me your age?
can you send me a picture?
Sure, I will wait
Does it itch or burn?
are you taiking any medication regularly?
please give me a moment
Dear customer, it is a pleasure to serve you today, I want to tell you that what you are experiencing is a stomatitis is characterized by inflammatory processes in the oral cavity and structures in it as the tongue, the vestibule and the inner part of the oral mucosa, the fundamental recommendation is to maintain abundant hydration of at least 3 to 4 liters of water per day to fluidify any secretion that can accumulate in this region, decrease from the nutritional point of view, any food that can increase the level of irritation in this region such as processed and ultra-processed foods, ketchup, mayonnaise, mustard, spicy, soda, powdered chemical drinks and juices, coffee, alcoholic beverages, on the other hand, ulcer mouth lozenges can be very useful leaving dilute a tablet in the oral cavity every 6 or 8 hours depending on the need and the inflammatory process, I would like you to keep me abreast of your situation, I will be happy to assist you and guide you in everything I can, I will be attentive to any additional questions about it.
Don't worry, dear; he has no suspicious lesions or lesions suggestive of malignancy, nor is there anything resembling cancer to be suspected, so you can rest assured from that point of view.
Yes, dear, the photo is fine, anyway I would like you to send me a daily photo with the same illumination and projection to evaluate the evolution in the next days.
you have nothing to worry about, dear,
you are welcome, dear, have an excellent day
Dear customer, it is a pleasure to serve you again today, I want to tell you that looking at the image there does seem to be an irritative process around the tongue produced mostly by some kind of food or aggression by some chemical consumed, the recommendation is to use a common Colgate toothpaste and suspend the use of any additional mouthwash, also the use of a toothbrush with soft bristles should help, all this with the dietary recommendations that I provided above should improve satisfactorily.
No, dear, you do not have signs of oral candidiasis; it could be gingivostomatitis that, with the recommendations I provided above, should improve.
It's nothing serious, don't worry
No problem, dear, I could visualize the whole inflammatory process. As I told you before,
the situation should improve with the recommendations I gave you
you are welcome dear
Dear customer, as you will see on the internet there is a large amount of information that only increases the levels of stress, anxiety and worry of our patients, for this reason we have to individualise each particular clinical case and this is where medical judgement comes into play, and everything you have and tell me about is under no circumstances related to any type of cancer, with the recommendations I gave you in my first intervention the situation should improve after a few weeks, but you should still see your doctor.
Dear customer, it is a pleasure to serve you today, I want to tell you that you have nothing to worry about, I will gladly explain, the tongue has four main types of taste buds that are responsible for perceiving the taste, there are the filiform and fungiform papillae that are located in the center of the tongue, there are the foliated papillae which are those found on the posterior lateral edge of the tongue and finally there are the goblet papillae which are the large taste buds that are evident on the back of the tongue and are the ones that you point out in the image, each of these taste buds are responsible for perceiving salty, sweet, bitter, sour tastes, the goblet taste buds which are the large papillae that you show me in the image are responsible for perceiving the bitter taste of food so they are not any type of tumor or cancer development so you can be totally calm about it. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
Yes, dear, it is totally normal, you have nothing to worry about, many times they can increase in size due to the type of stimulus they receive depending on the food consumed during the day.