10 Causes of White Tongue
Cause #10: Lifestyle Habits
Some lifestyle habits such as smoking, use of tobacco, and alcohol consumption can also cause oral issues such as a white tongue. Some oral issues smokers and tobacco users experience are smoker’s melanosis, periodontal disease, nicotinic stomatitis, gingival recession, tooth abrasion, black hairy tongue, white tongue, and oral cancer, among others.
The tongue has a thin layer of dead cells that is normally shed at the rate it is produced. However, there is chronic irritation of the tongue in smokers causing the accumulation of keratin.
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