Painless Bumps Floor Of Mouth

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Painless bumps floor of mouth.

Lumps and bumps aren t uncommon in your mouth. It may annoy you though because you feel a bump inside your mouth. The floor of mouth is a horseshoe shaped area under the tongue between the sides of the lower jawbone the mandible. Mucous cysts appear as soft swollen lumps that.

You may have experienced them before on your tongue lips or the back of your throat. Floor of the mouth cancer is cancer that begins on the tissue underneath your tongue. Changes in the look and feel of the tissue on the floor of the mouth such as a lump or a sore that doesn t heal are often the first signs. Those on the floor of the mouth are called ranulas.

Floor of the mouth cancer most often begins in the thin flat cells that line the inside of your mouth squamous cells. Cancer of the floor of mouth accounts for 28 35 percent of all mouth cancers. Men are diagnosed with floor of mouth cancer three to four times more often than women. Also called a mucous cyst or mucocele the sac is harmless and painless says the national institutes of health nih.

The most significant risk factors for floor of mouth cancer are tobacco and alcohol use. A bump or injury could cause swelling.