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Help! there's white spots on my tonsils that fill the 'holes/cracks'?
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Crypts are normal: It may be normal to have some discharge or tonsillar exudate, that resides in crypts within the tonsils. These deep ridges are just a characteristic of tonsils.
Answered 3/20/2014
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