Diffuse Fissured Tongue: The Incidental Icelands - A Case Report
Journal Title: Journal of Oral Biology - Year 2018, Vol 5, Issue 1
Abstract
The tongue plays an important role in speech, taste and deglutition.Any disease of the tongue makes the intake of food difficult thereby depriving the individual of adequate essential nutrients. Fissured tongue is a commonly encountered tongue disorder in dental practice. But, a lack of knowledge amongst the dental practitioners on its appearance, different patterns, severity, and association of fissuring with various systemic disorders and other tongue anomalies is an area usually neglected or ignored, thus a problem looming at large. Thus, it is essentially important and the need of the hour that every dentist should be made well aware of such underrated pathologies and its possible implications.
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