Tongue with teeth marks in the middle of the crack, may be related to grooved tongue, chronic tongue inflammation or tongue ulcers, teeth alignment and other factors.
1. Grooved tongue: some people have grooves in the middle of the back of the tongue, with varying depths, like the gyrus sulcus, which is medically known as grooved tongue, gyrus tongue, etc. It is considered to be a congenital developmental abnormality. It is considered to be a congenital developmental abnormality. According to the pattern of grooves, it can be categorized into cerebral gyrus type, leaf vein type and dendritic type. The grooved tongue is asymptomatic, can be due to memory food residue secondary infection and pain, grooved tongue tongue is generally larger.
2. Chronic tongue inflammation or tongue ulcer: when the tongue tissue has chronic inflammation or edge of the ulcer, it can make the whole tongue tissue edema enlargement. And the tongue is in a relatively fixed space in the inherent oral cavity, so there will be a tongue with teeth marks phenomenon.
3. Malocclusion: When the teeth erupt poorly and cause malocclusion, and the whole tooth row is tilted to the tongue side, it will make the space of the intrinsic oral cavity smaller, and the tongue body will appear the phenomenon of tongue teeth marks due to the space becoming smaller.
Tongue with teeth marks in the middle of the crack, there may be other reasons, should be timely consultation, improve the examination, clear cause and diagnosis, standardized treatment under the guidance of a professional physician.