Painless Bumps Floor Of Mouth

Many things can cause a bump on the roof your mouth.

Painless bumps floor of mouth.

Mucous cysts appear as soft swollen lumps that. A mouth cyst is a thin fluid filled sac on the inside of your mouth. Pearly or semi clear surface or bluish in color. Also called a mucous cyst or mucocele the sac is harmless and painless says the national institutes of health nih.

Floor of the mouth cancer most often begins in the thin flat cells that line the inside of your mouth squamous cells. The floor of mouth is a horseshoe shaped area under the tongue between the sides of the lower jawbone the mandible. You may have experienced them before on your tongue lips or the back of your throat. Those on the floor of the mouth are called ranulas.

Floor of the mouth cancer is cancer that begins on the tissue underneath your tongue. A bump or injury could cause swelling. Men are diagnosed with floor of mouth cancer three to four times more often than women. The most significant risk factors for floor of mouth cancer are tobacco and alcohol use.

Lumps and bumps aren t uncommon in your mouth. 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.