COLOUR
– pale (anemia); cianotic (hypoxia: mitral stenosis); red (poliglobulia)
dark spots (Peutz-Jeghers srd- colonic polyps) volume (increased in acromegaly) Lesions
– – – – – Herpes sifilis telangiectasia (Rendu-Osler) cancer iritant or contact cheilitis with redness, scaling and fissuring from topical medications, cosmetics (lipstick) mouthwashes and dentifrices, dental material – angular cheilitis - inflamation of skin with contiguos labial mucous membrane at the angles of mouth – actinic cheilitis - leukoplatic plaques -premalignant lesion in individual chronic exposed to UV light
Sifilis Ephelides, Herpes
Rendu Osler Disease
BUZE
COLOUR
TONGUE
- PAIN - VOLUME (INCREASED IN AMILOIDOSIS, MIXEDEMA, TUMOUR, ACROMEGALY AND DECREASE IN XI PASY MOBILITY: XI PASY GENERAL ASPECT clinical varieties of glossitis
– geographic tongue -loss of filiform papilae on dorsum of tongue; typically, a white margin surrounds a central, red, atrophic area- cause unknown, no treatment – black hairy tongue - elongated black or brown filiform papilae that grow on the posteror of the tongueand exted toward the tip - antibiotics, smoking poor hygiene – strawberry tongue white exudative glositis with prominent red papillae poking through the exudate; after some days become beefy red -scarlet fever, toxic shoch