Guiding opinions:
Dampness is blocked in the tongue, but the body is fat. Introduction: Tooth marks are formed due to the extrusion of dentition, so tooth marks often appear with the fat and tender tongue body. On the one hand, due to the swelling of the tongue, it belongs to spleen-yang deficiency, on the other hand, due to the relaxation of the tongue muscles and insufficient mouth opening, it belongs to spleen-qi deficiency.
Cleft tongue, also known as tongue groove, actually exists in many young people. The incidence of cracks and fissures with different widths on the back of tongue, the front of tongue and the edges on both sides of tongue tip is 5%~ 10% in the crowd. Five in ten thousand to one in ten thousand healthy people have congenital cleft tongue, which generally has no obvious symptoms and is not too uncomfortable. They only eat spicy food. With the increase of age, the consumption of internal diseases and the long-term existence of oral irritation factors, the lines and cracks on the tongue surface will expand and become obvious.
Except for congenital cleft tongue caused by genetic factors, most cleft tongues are tongue images caused by fever and dehydration due to chronic consumptive diseases such as water and electrolyte disorder, vitamin deficiency, diabetes, chronic gastroenteritis's disease and liver cirrhosis. Mental stress, excessive fatigue, excessive smoking and drinking, long-term insomnia and other factors are also related; Poor oral hygiene, a large number of dental calculus, food residue, residual roots and crowns irritate the tongue. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that tongue surface crack is caused by fever, which is caused by heart fire, fever due to yin deficiency, fumigation with heat toxin, phlegm-heat condensation, deficiency of essence and blood or deficiency of yin and body fluid.
Due to the atrophy of tongue mucosa, the longitudinal and transverse lines of tongue muscle are exposed to the surface, forming superficial cracks; Severe atrophic lesions of the tongue make the tongue epithelial layer lose its normal structure, some nipples flatten and fuse, and some atrophy and fracture form deep cracks. The tongue coating is thick and white with uneven distribution. Some have no tongue coating, bright red tongue color and many knife-shaped deep groove cracks on the tongue surface. Cracks are often shaped like veins, brain rings, herringbone, Sichuan, tree forks and so on. Patients with few and shallow cracks have soft tongue, free movement and normal taste; People with deep cracks are not covered with tongue coating, and it is easy to leave food residues in the cracks to form infectious inflammation and tingling; Repeated infection and inflammation, tongue swelling and hypertrophy, tooth marks will appear on the tongue edge; Long-term cracking of the tongue body may also lead to unbalanced nutrition of the tongue and atrophy and smoothness of the tongue surface.
For some people with cleft tongue, it is recommended to avoid spicy food as much as possible; Pay attention to diet balance, pay attention to water supply and vitamin intake, and take vitamin B 1, vitamin B2 and vitamin B complex orally when necessary; Regularly check the situation in the oral cavity, remove tartar and calculus in time, and remove the residual roots and crowns with extensive damage; Shallow cracks generally do not need to be treated. When the fracture is deep and the symptoms are obvious, surgery can be considered to remove the fracture and close it.
It is very important to keep the oral cavity clean and hygienic. Rinse your mouth in time after meals, use anti-inflammatory mouthwash properly, and clean up the food residue and bacteria in the cleft tongue so that food will not accumulate in the ditch, otherwise the repeatedly infected fissure will continue to deepen.