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Soft Tissue Abnormalities
Sorted most common to least common

	1. Leukoplakia Description: White patch Location: Floor of mouth MESH Subject Headings: Pathology, Oral; Leukoplakia; Mouth Mucosa--pathology Type of abnormality: soft tissue
	2. Palatal torus Description: Bony hard lobulated protuberance Location: Midline hard palate MESH Subject Headings: Pathology, Oral; Exostoses; Palate -- pathology Type of abnormality: soft tissue
	3. Mandibular tori Description: Bilateral lobulated bony protuberances Location: Lingual of mandible bilaterally MESH Subject Headings: Pathology, Oral; Exostoses; Mandible--pathology Type of abnormality: soft tissue
	4. Inflammation or irritation of tongue Description: Reddish patch Location: Dorsolateral border MESH Subject Headings: Pathology, Oral; Glossitis; Inflammation Type of abnormality: soft tissue
	5. Fibroma Description: Sessile smooth surfaced nodule Location: Anterior buccal mucosa MESH Subject Headings: Pathology, Oral; Fibroma; Mouth Mucosa--pathology Type of abnormality: soft tissue
	6. Fordyce's granules Description: Multiple small yellow papular lesions Location: Buccal mucosa MESH Subject Headings: Pathology, Oral; Mouth Mucosa; Sebaceous Glands Type of abnormality: soft tissue
	7. Hemangioma Description: Two raised bluish lesions Location: Left dorsal surface of tongue MESH Subject Headings: Pathology, Oral; Hemangioma; Mouth Mucosa -- pathology Type of abnormality: soft tissue
	8. Hemangioma Description: Raised red lesion Location: Vermilion border of lower lip left side MESH Subject Headings: Pathology, Oral; Hemangioma; Mouth Mucosa -- pathology Type of abnormality: soft tissue
	9. Hemangioma (compressed) Alternative title: Compressed hemangioma Description: Raised red lesion that blanches under compression Location: Vermilion border of lower lip left side MESH Subject Headings: Pathology, Oral; Hemangioma; Mouth Mucosa -- pathology Type of abnormality: soft tissue
	10. Traumatic ulcer Description: Erythematous area surrounding a central yellow fibrinopurulent membrane Location: Right lateral border of tongue MESH Subject Headings: Pathology, Oral; Oral Ulcer; Mouth Mucosa--pathology Type of abnormality: soft tissue
	11. Papilloma (buccal mucosa) Description: Exophytic white lesion with numerous finger-like projections on the surface. Location: Right buccal mucosa MESH Subject Headings: Pathology, Oral; Papilloma; Mouth Neoplasms Type of abnormality: soft tissue
	12. Papilloma Description: Pedunculated exophytic lesion with numerous finger-like projections on the surface Location: Left lateral border of tongue MESH Subject Headings: Pathology, Oral; Papilloma; Mouth Neoplasms Type of abnormality: soft tissue
	13. Epulis fissuratum Description: Folds of hyperplastic tissue Location: Anterior maxillary right and left labial vestibule MESH Subject Headings: Pathology, Oral; Gingival Diseases; Hyperplasia Type of abnormality: soft tissue
	14. Sublingual varicosities Description: Multiple bluish-purple dilated veins Location: Ventral surface of tongue MESH Subject Headings: Pathology, Oral; Tongue -- pathology; Type of abnormality: soft tissue
	15. Fissured tongue Description: Numerous grooves or fissures of the tongue surface Location: Dorsal surface of tongue MESH Subject Headings: Pathology, Oral; Tongue, Fissured; Tongue -- pathology Type of abnormality: soft tissue
	16. Geographic tongue Alternative title: Erythema migrans Description: Multiple areas of erythema surrounded by yellowish-white borders Location: Dorsal surface of tongue MESH Subject Headings: Pathology, Oral; Glossitis, Benign, Migratory; Tongue -- pathology Type of abnormality: soft tissue
	17. Geographic tongue (Erythema migrans) Alternative title: Erythema migrans Description: Multiple areas of erythema surrounded by yellowish-white borders Location: Left lateral border and ventral surface of tongue MESH Subject Headings: Pathology, Oral; Glossitis, Benign, Migratory; Tongue -- pathology Type of abnormality: soft tissue
	18. Inflammatory papillary hyperplasia (IPH) Alternative title: IPH Description: Erythematous palatal mucosa with numerous papillary projections Location: Hard palate MESH Subject Headings: Pathology, Oral; Hyperplasia; Mouth Mucosa -- pathology Type of abnormality: soft tissue
	19. Inflammatory papillary hyperplasia (IPH, Dentures) Description: Ill-fitting dentures in place Location: Hard palate MESH Subject Headings: Pathology, Oral; Hyperplasia; Denture, Complete Type of abnormality: soft tissue
	20. Herpes labialis Description: Fluid filled vesicles Location: Skin adjacent to vermilion border of lower lip MESH Subject Headings: Pathology, Oral; Herpes Labialis; Lip -- pathology Type of abnormality: soft tissue
	21. Mucocele Description: Bluish dome-shaped fluctuant swelling Location: Lower left labial mucosa MESH Subject Headings: Pathology, Oral; Mucocele; Mouth Mucosa -- pathology Type of abnormality: soft tissue
	22. Scar tissue Description: Linear scar tissue of gingiva Location: Gingiva adjacent to the upper lip in the area of the missing central incisor MESH Subject Headings: Pathology, Oral; Cicatrix; Gingiva -- pathology Type of abnormality: soft tissue
	23. Angular cheilitis Description: Reddish groove in skin Location: Skin of left corner of mouth MESH Subject Headings: Pathology, Oral; Cheilitis; Skin--pathology Type of abnormality: soft tissue
	24. Enlarged lingual tonsil Alternative title: Reactive lymphoid hyperplasia Description: Reddish smooth-surfaced papules of the posterior lateral border of the tongue Location: Posterior lateral border of the tongue in the foliate papilla area MESH Subject Headings: Pathology, Oral; Lymphoid Tissue; Tongue --pathology Type of abnormality: soft tissue
	25. Hematoma Description: Sessile bluish-black lesion of the floor of the mouth Location: Right floor of the mouth MESH Subject Headings: Pathology, Oral; Hematoma; Mouth Mucosa -- pathology Type of abnormality: soft tissue
	26. Smokeless tobacco pouch keratosis Alternative title: Early smokeless tobacco pouch keratosis; Smokeless tobacco pouch keratosis early Description: Fissured or rippled white lesion of lower lip mucosa Location: Lower lip mucosa MESH Subject Headings: Pathology, Oral; Mouth Mucosa -- pathology; Type of abnormality: soft tissue
	27. Smokeless tobacco pouch keratosis Alternative title: 40-year smokeless tobacco pouch Description: Leathery appearing fissured white patch of buccal and vestibular mucosa Location: Right buccal mucosa MESH Subject Headings: Pathology, Oral; Mouth Mucosa -- pathology; Type of abnormality: soft tissue
	28. Chronic cheek bites Alternative title: Chronic cheek chewer Description: Thickened ragged appearing white patch of the buccal mucosa Location: Right buccal mucosa MESH Subject Headings: Pathology, Oral; Mouth Mucosa -- pathology; Type of abnormality: soft tissue
	29. Lichen planus Description: Interlacing white lines (Wickham's striae) of buccal mucosa Location: Right buccal mucosa MESH Subject Headings: Pathology, Oral; Lichen Planus; Mouth Mucosa -- pathology Type of abnormality: soft tissue
	30. Buccal exostoses Description: Bony hard nodules of alveolar ridge Location: Buccal aspect of the right maxillary alveolar ridge MESH Subject Headings: Pathology, Oral; Exostoses; Maxilla --pathology Type of abnormality: soft tissue
	31. Amalgam tattoo Description: Multiple bilateral flat black discolorations of the alveolar ridge Location: Right and left mandibular alveolar ridge MESH Subject Headings: Pathology, Oral; Mouth Mucosa--Pathology; Type of abnormality: soft tissue
	32. Oral melanotic macule Description: Dark brown macular lesion of lower lip Location: Vermilion border of lower right lip MESH Subject Headings: Pathology, Oral; Mouth Mucosa -- pathology; Type of abnormality: soft tissue
	33. Median rhomboid glossitis Description: Erythematous area of the dorsum of the tongue Location: Midline of the posterior dorsal surface of the tongue MESH Subject Headings: Pathology, Oral; Glossitis; Tongue -- pathology Type of abnormality: soft tissue
	34. Hairy tongue Description: Greatly elongated and dark brown stained filiform papillae of the tongue Location: Midline of the dorsal surface of the tongue MESH Subject Headings: Pathology, Oral; Tongue, Hairy; Tongue -- pathology Type of abnormality: soft tissue
	35. Smooth red tongue Description: Smooth red tongue secondary to atrophy of the papillae Location: Dorsum of tongue MESH Subject Headings: Pathology, Oral; Tongue -- pathology; Type of abnormality: soft tissue
	36. Epidermoid cyst Description: Large sessile swelling of the floor of the mouth Location: Floor of the mouth MESH Subject Headings: Pathology, Oral; Cysts; Mouth Mucosa--pathology Type of abnormality: soft tissue
	37. Lipoma Description: Yellowish smooth-surfaced sessile mass of the lower lip. Location: Left side of lower lip MESH Subject Headings: Pathology, Oral; Lipoma; Mouth Neoplasms Type of abnormality: soft tissue

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Soft Tissue Abnormalities Sorted most common to least common

Soft Tissue Abnormalities
Sorted most common to least common