Small Movable Bump Under Skin On Floor Of Mouth

If i look at it its a small little bump under the skin.

Small movable bump under skin on floor of mouth. Cancer of the floor of mouth accounts for 28 35 percent of all mouth cancers. Hello it s me again biding my time until i go to the dentist for check up. There are two. The most significant risk factors for floor of mouth cancer are tobacco and alcohol use.

In some cases a bump in mouth can start out small and white but then become bigger and look like a pimple. With my tongue i ve noticed that i have a smalish around 3 5mm round lump inside the floor of my mouth under the gums. It seems i ve found another reason to worry my head. The moveable lumps are not on the mouth cheeks but on the lower part of my mouth one is about pea size and very smooth and seems to get smaller in the mornings when i wake up and the others on the other side of the lower part of my mouth and on my tongue are very small and they all roll around on my fingers.

The damage is often caused by braces lip biting or other injury to the mucosal surface. Dr i went to an endodontist for a root canal and while their asked him to look at this tiny little bump on the floor of my mouth. The blister is usually filled with clear fluid and is caused by damage to the inner wetter skin of the lip or mouth mucosal surface. A mucocele is a small painless blister like lesion that occurs on the inner lips or floor of the mouth.

Men are diagnosed with floor of mouth cancer three to four times more often than women. An oral mucous cyst also called a mucocele is a harmless swollen spot it s a good idea to get it checked out though especially if it s bothersome. Actually it is on the ligament that stretches from the back of the tongue to the floor of the mouth. Finding any kind of bump can be a cause for alarm.

I feel it when i run my tongue over it. The floor of mouth is a horseshoe shaped area under the tongue between the sides of the lower jawbone the mandible.