Cut In Floor Of Mouth

Clean the cut by rinsing with water.

Cut in floor of mouth.

The most significant risk factors for floor of mouth cancer are tobacco and alcohol use. For cuts inside your mouth such as tongue gums inside of the cheek and roof of the mouth. While many mouth cuts require minimal treatment others are serious and require emergency care. Wash your hands before handling the injury.

Without infection mouth heals very fast. The floor of the mouth is the part of the oral cavity that is located under the tongue. The mouth is an opening through which people produce sound for communication and also take in food. If you get your cut on the roof of mouth infected it might cause complications and take longer to heal.

These include direct trauma to the face deep lacerations to the inner cheek gums or tongue and. Symptoms of mouth problems include pain and soreness as well as a mouth and gums that look red shiny or swollen. Men are diagnosed with floor of mouth cancer three to four times more often than women. You may notice small ulcers or sores in the mouth on gums or on or under your.

A cut in your mouth can be caused by many different things both internal such as biting your cheek and external such as a dental procedure. Cancer of the floor of mouth accounts for 28 35 percent of all mouth cancers. It may be involved in a wide range of pathologic processes some of which are unique to the region.