A white tongue is surprisingly common and usually harmless, but it can feel alarming if you don’t know what’s behind it. In ...

A black tongue can occur due to certain medications or drinks. It can also be a sign that dead skin cells are accumulating on your tongue. While it may be alarming to see, a black tongue generally isn ...

Depending on how you currently feel about the state of your oral hygiene, fluorescent images of all the tiny communities living on the human tongue may either distress or intrigue you. A study ...

Updating an ancient form of health diagnosis with modern machine learning, researchers have developed a remarkable system that can reveal a range of medical conditions just by looking at your tongue.

The term tongue twisting comprises rolling, folding, rotating, adjusting, and turning of the tongue. The human tongue is a muscular organ that is capable of identifying the taste of food and is used ...

There are mainly two reasons for tongue-tie, i.e. either the frenum is too short, tight or didn’t move back down the tongue ...

Every time you visit your doctor, he or she probably examines your tongue right away. If you’ve ever wondered what a simple glance at your tongue is telling your doctor, you're not alone. Here are ...

A woman who lost her tongue to cancer had it reconstructed with flesh from her left arm – and has a tattoo on it. Jennifer Alexander, 52, was 37 when she was first diagnosed with stage one tongue ...