What are the causes of tongue ulcers?

Tongue ulcers are the most common oral ulcer diseases. They are often aggravated by poor diet, lack of attention to personal hygiene habits, and failure to brush teeth in time. Patients with tongue ulcers dare not eat randomly, which causes a lot of inconvenience in their daily lives. In addition to oral diseases, the factors that generally cause tongue ulcers also include bacterial diseases, mucosal infections, etc.

1. Warning signs of Behcet's disease

If one or several tongue ulcers recur or even occur one after another, are extremely painful, or are accompanied by ulcers in other parts of the body, you should pay more attention to it, because such tongue ulcers may be a warning sign of an immune disease - Behcet's disease. This is the harm of tongue ulcers.

2. Series of Oral Diseases

The oral cavity is the first line of defense for the human body against the invasion of external pathogens and is the outpost of the throat. After a tongue ulcer occurs, if the ulcer does not heal quickly, various bacteria and viruses may spread through the affected area to the pharynx and cause a series of oropharyngeal diseases such as acute pharyngitis and gingivitis. This is also a harm of tongue ulcers.

3. Oral cancer

The harm of tongue ulcers and long-term tongue ulcers that do not heal should also be watched out for the possibility of cancer. If the ulcer is more than 1 cm in diameter, with raised and uneven edges, a sunken center, and small granular bumps on the surface of the depression, and hard lumps can be felt around and at the bottom of the ulcer, it may be a sign of cancer. If the same oral ulcer does not improve for more than three weeks, you should be alert to whether it is a sign of oral cancer.