Painless Bumps Floor Of Mouth

Cancer of the floor of mouth accounts for 28 35 percent of all mouth cancers.

Painless bumps floor of mouth.

Those on the floor of the mouth are called ranulas. Men are diagnosed with floor of mouth cancer three to four times more often than women. Pearly or semi clear surface or bluish in color. The most significant risk factors for floor of mouth cancer are tobacco and alcohol use.

Lumps and bumps aren t uncommon in your mouth. You may have experienced them before on your tongue lips or the back of your throat. A mouth cyst is a thin fluid filled sac on the inside of your mouth. Also called a mucous cyst or mucocele the sac is harmless and painless says the national institutes of health nih.

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. Floor of the mouth cancer is cancer that begins on the tissue underneath your tongue. A bump or injury could cause swelling. It may annoy you though because you feel a bump inside your mouth.

The floor of mouth is a horseshoe shaped area under the tongue between the sides of the lower jawbone the mandible. Mucous cysts appear as soft swollen lumps that.