What happened to the white spots on the tongue?

  The most common white spots on the tongue are oral white spots, which are white patches on the oral mucosa that cannot be clinically or pathologically diagnosed as other diseases, and their etiology is not very clear yet, and may be closely related to smoking, local irritation, and Candida infection.  Most of the white spots usually have no other discomfort symptoms except for the local feeling of coarseness, and if erosion occurs, there can be pain. At this stage, there is no special treatment for oral leukoplakia. First of all, all possible irritants should be removed, such as grinding and changing sharp edges and tips, modifying dentures with rough and sharp edges, extracting residual roots and crowns, especially quitting smoking and abstaining from drinking alcohol. Patients who are diagnosed with leukoplakia should be treated under the guidance of a doctor, and medication or surgery can be used according to the situation.  For white spots with granular, warty or erosive ulcers and those occurring on the edge of the tongue, the floor of the mouth – tongue belly, and the soft palate complex area of the mucosa in the corner of the mouth, those who do not have good results with conservative treatment should be removed surgically and biopsied pathologically as early as possible because white spots of these types and parts are prone to carcinogenesis. You can visit the mucosa department or maxillofacial surgery department of the oral hospital.