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My fifteen year old son has developed white patches on his tongue, which are flat and not painful, they do not scrape off. what could they be?
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Geographic Tongue: If there is a a patchy "map-like" appearance, then this is possibly a geographic tongue which is a harmless condition, sometimes associated with another illness, cause unknown, and no treatment necessary. If this is a confluent (all over) thick white covering of the tongue, then it may be thrush, which requires treatment with a prescription.
Answered 10/21/2014
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