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If you develop geographic tongue is it permanent/always present persisting for the rest of your life?
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Come and go, but...: Tongue is known to have many variations with pigmenting, size, appearance, ; not always due to disease.Other causes of tongue that looks patchy include: lichen planus (responds to steroids), white sponge nevus (familial, benign, permanent), smoker's leukoplakia (2% risk of cancer, needs biopsy), hairy leukoplakia (due to epsteinbarr virus), warts (due to papillomavirus), "thrush" (rx antifungals).
Answered 3/13/2019
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