HAIRY TONGUE

Year 2016, Volume: 49 Issue: 1, 69 - 71, 01.03.2016

Adil Çetin Merve Betül Özdemir İsmail Arslan

Abstract

Hairy tongue, the language of the back surface of the abnormal yellow-brown, sometimes characterized by good formation covered with hair like black-natured, is a disease that occurs later is not innate. Patients usually abnormal appearance of language, decreased sense of taste is visit a doctor with symptoms such as halitosis. Poor oral hygiene, smoking, alcohol consumption, radiation, decreased saliva, mechanical irritation, tetracycline, neomycin, steroids and some psychotropic drugs also triggers the formation of hairy tongue. This article has been presented in the literature to date information of our patients smoker and fluoxetine. Smoking cessation treatment and reducing the patient's psychiatrist in the presence of fluoxetine dose oral betadine solution, tongue brushing and application of topical retinoids has been suggested

Keywords

Hairy language, smoking, poor oral hygiene

KILLI DİL

Abstract

Kıllı dil, dilin sırt-üst yüzeyinin anormal sarı-kahverengi, bazende siyah renk saç benzeri oluşumlarla kaplanmasıyla karakterize iyi huylu, doğuştan olmayıp sonradan meydana gelen bir hastalıktır. Hastalar genellikle dilinde anormal görünüm, tad duyusunda azalma, ağız kokusu gibi şikayetlerle doktora başvurmaktadır. Kötü oral hijyen, sigara, alkol kullanımı, radyasyon, azalan tükürük salgısı, mekanik irritasyon, tetrasiklin, neomisin, steroid ve bazı psikotrop ilaçlar da kıllı dil oluşumunu tetikler. Bu makalemizde sigara içen ve fluoksetin kullanan hastamız sunulmuştur. Tedavide hastanın sigarayı bırakması ve fluoksetin dozunun psikiyatrist eşliğinde düşürülmesi, oral betadin solüsyon, dilini fırçalaması ve topikal retinoid uygulaması önerilmiştir

Keywords

Kıllı dil, sigara, kötü oral hijyen

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