Painless Bumps Floor Of Mouth

Lumps and bumps aren t uncommon in your mouth.

Painless bumps floor of mouth.

Floor of the mouth cancer is cancer that begins on the tissue underneath your tongue. An oral mucous cyst will develop near one of the openings of the salivary glands under the tongue or on the lips cheeks or floor of the mouth. Mucous cysts appear as soft swollen lumps that. A mouth cyst is a thin fluid filled sac on the inside of your mouth.

Cancer of the floor of mouth accounts for 28 35 percent of all mouth cancers. Those on the floor of the mouth are called ranulas. A bump or injury could cause swelling. 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.

Pearly or semi clear surface or bluish in color. Floor of the mouth cancer most often begins in the thin flat cells that line the inside of your mouth squamous cells. You may have experienced them before on your tongue lips or the back of your throat. The most significant risk factors for floor of mouth cancer are tobacco and alcohol use.

Men are diagnosed with floor of mouth cancer three to four times more often than women. It may annoy you though because you feel a bump inside your mouth.