Evaluation of the Frequency of Tongue Lesions in High School Studentsin Sari in 2019

Background & Objective: Tongue lesions are classified into congenital and acquired categories, macroglossia, lingual thyroid, microglossia, and lingual tonsil are congenital lesions, and geographic tongue, fissured tongue, currugated tongue, and median rhomboid glossitis, hairy tongue, white and red lesions are acquired. Identifying these cases and determining their prevalence can be used to treat and relieve anxiety. Therefore, due to the high diversity of geographical distribution of language lesions, the aim of this study was to determine the frequency of language lesions among students in Sari. Material & Methods: This study was descriptive cross sectional. Tongue lesions(macroglossia, lingual thyroid, microglossia, lingual tonsil, geographic tongue, fissured tongue, currugated tongue, and median rhomboid glossitis, hairy tongue, white and red lesions) were recorded. Data was analyzed by SPSS16. Findings: Findings from the study indicate that a total of 540 individuals (270 girls and 270 boys) participated in the study. Coated tongue was seen in 33.3% of cases and lesions such as microglossia, exophytic lesions and median rhomboid glossitis were present in 0.2% of patients. No ulcer was observed in any of the subjects studied. Significant relationship was observed between hairy tongue (P = 0.004) and gender. In the other lesions, the frequency of lesions was not significant between the two gender (P-value <0.05). Conclusion: Coated tongue had the highest frequency and lesions such as microglossia, exophytic lesions and median rhomboid glossitis were the least frequent. Hairy tongue was significantly observed in males. Key word: tongue lesions, prevalence, Mazandaran