tongue coating

Food debris, desquamated epithelial cells and bacteria often form a visible tongue coating.

Patients with periodontal disease were shown to have sixfold prevalence of tongue coating compared with normal subjects.

The presence of halitosis-producing bacteria on the back of the tongue is not to be confused with tongue coating.

Zinc deficiency can manifest as non-specific oral ulceration, stomatitis, or white tongue coating.

Bacteria are invisible to the naked eye, and degrees of white tongue coating are present in most people with and without halitosis.

Other chapters focus on particular aspects of the tongue: the pale tongue, the cracked tongue, and special tongue coatings.

Where the condition involves the tongue, there is an erythematous enlargement with furrows, crenation and loss of the normal dorsal tongue coating.

White Tongue Coating Could mean: You have a yeast infection— the oral type, that is, says Bruce Robinson, M.D., of the American Academy of Dermatology.

Dampness blocking the spleen and stomach manifested as fullness and stifling sensation in the chest and epigastric region, poor appetite, lassitude, diarrhea and white and sticky tongue coating.

A visible white tongue coating does not always equal the back of the tongue as an origin of halitosis, however a "white tongue" is thought to be a sign of halitosis.

Although patients with periodontal disease are more likely to suffer from halitosis than the general population, the halitosis symptom was shown to be more strongly associated with degree of tongue coating than with the severity of periodontal disease.

As a stomachic - for "Damp obstruction or accumulation in the Middle Jiao", with symptoms such as low appetite, abdominal distension, epigastric distress and fullness, indigestion, dyspepsia, diarrhea, nausea and vomiting, weariness, a heavy sensation in the body, and a thick greasy tongue coating.

This part of the tongue is relatively dry and poorly cleansed, and the convoluted microbial structure of the tongue dorsum provides an ideal habitat for anaerobic bacteria, which flourish under a continually-forming tongue coating of food debris, dead epithelial cells, postnasal drip and overlying bacteria, living and dead.

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