Painless Bumps Floor Of Mouth

A bump or injury could cause swelling.

Painless bumps floor of mouth.

You may have experienced them before on your tongue lips or the back of your throat. Mucous cysts appear as soft swollen lumps that. A mouth cyst is a thin fluid filled sac on the inside of your mouth. Floor of the mouth cancer is cancer that begins on the tissue underneath your tongue.

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. Pearly or semi clear surface or bluish in color. Many things can cause a bump on the roof your mouth. The most significant risk factors for floor of mouth cancer are tobacco and alcohol use.

Also called a mucous cyst or mucocele the sac is harmless and painless says the national institutes of health nih. The floor of mouth is a horseshoe shaped area under the tongue between the sides of the lower jawbone the mandible. Those on the floor of the mouth are called ranulas. Lumps and bumps aren t uncommon in your mouth.

It may annoy you though because you feel a bump inside your mouth. Cancer of the floor of mouth accounts for 28 35 percent of all mouth cancers.