Tongue laceration
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Background
- Secondary to tongue biting
- Serious injuries can cause hemorrhage and potential airway compromise
Clinical Features
Differential Diagnosis
Tongue diagnoses
- Tongue laceration
- Strawberry tongue
- Black hairy tongue
- Oropharyngeal candidiasis (oral thrush)
- Hairy Oral Leukoplakia
- Tongue swelling
- Trauma
- Angioedema
- Hereditary
- Allergic (ACE)
- Idiopathic
Workup
Management
- Do not need primary repair unless >1 cm in length, widely gaping, involving tip, or large hemorrhage
- Use absorbable sutures
- Anesthesia of the anterior 2/3 of the tongue is obtained through an inf alveolar block
- Chlorhexidine mouth wash to prevent infection