A fissured tongue may affect men slightly more often than women.

This benign condition often shows up along with fissured tongue.

It is not common to need a biopsy of a fissured tongue.

Reports suggest that the frequency and severity of fissured tongue appear to increase with age.

Because a fissured tongue can cluster in families, it may be genetically inherited.

In some cases, fissured tongue may develop in association with infection or malnutrition.

These are the characteristics of a fissured tongue:

Although other causes of fissured tongue are unknown, it may appear along with other conditions such as these:

Fissured tongue occurs in as many as eight out of 10 children with the chromosomal disorder Down syndrome.

If a fissured tongue causes any symptoms, your dentist may encourage you to brush your tongue.

Fissured tongue.

Fissured tongue with atrophy of the filiform papillae and a lobulated, erythematous appearance.

It not only causes a fissured tongue, but also lip or facial swelling and paralysis in the face (Bell's palsy) that may come and go.

Fissured tongue is seen in Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome, in most patients with Down syndrome, in association with geographic tongue, and in healthy, normal individuals.

The physical characteristics, which include slanted eyes, a short flat nose, a short neck, a fissured tongue and stubby hands, have made them instantly recognisable to the general public, where they are more commonly described as 'mongols'.

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MROS Melkersson Syndrome MRS None Melkersson Rosenthal syndrome is a rare neurological disorder characterized by recurrent, long lasting swelling of the face, particularly one or both lips (granulomatous cheilitis), facial muscle weakness (palsy) and a fissured tongue.