Get Virtual Care
For Businesses
About Us
A member asked:
What could hard lumps behind bottom teeth be?
4 doctors weighed in across 2 answers
?: Last molars? Bone? Infectious swelling? Foreign body?
Answered 3/30/2013
5.5k views
Tori: A dental torus is a harmless growth of bone that is considered to be a "developmental anomaly" . The plural for torus is tori.Tori are not cancerous and do not have the potential to become cancerous. However, they can present some problems if the day comes when you have to wear a dental partial or denture plate.
Answered 8/31/2013
5.5k views
Related Questions
A member asked:
What to do if I have a lump on my gum behind my bottom front tooth its pink and only tender if I press it its been there?
A doctor has provided 1 answer
A member asked:
Hard bone like lump on jaw .. It's under my third tooth from back bottom left ... Pain and swelling but it's been there a long time ? Pain now
6 doctors weighed in across 3 answers
A member asked:
White hard lump on bottom left extraction site 5 weeks after wisdom tooth extraction. It seems to have come on suddenly and is tender and painful?
6 doctors weighed in across 2 answers
A member asked:
Lump, firm, dime sized throbs lightly 1/2 times a day inch behind left earlobe. Yearly CBC in Nov all good Dental filling 4 weeks ago, top left tooth?
A doctor has provided 1 answer
A member asked:
Can an infected tooth cause a swollen mastoid lymph node? I have a smooth hard lump right behind my ear on the same side no pain and doesn't move.
8 doctors weighed in across 3 answers
People also searched for:
Two 3mm moveable hard lumps behind bottom front teeth in gums, and one 1mm hard non moveable lump in similar position next to the two moveable lumps?
Ive got a semi hard rounded lump under my tongue. Behind my bottom front teeth. It cant be seen only felt. When I brush my front bottom teeth it feels weird. Its not pus filled. It doesnt hurt. Im afraid this is cancer Im a 23 y/I male who smok?
I noticed a small lump under my tongue, behind my front teeth that seems to be at the bottom of my gums. It's painless and moveable. It hasn't grown. ?
I have a white bump on my maxillary labial frenulum. Also I have a round lump that I can feel but not see under my tongue behind my bottom teeth?
I have hard lump behind my uvula what is it? Could it be related to my wisdom tooth which is decaying?
Didn't find what you're looking for?
90,000 U.S. doctors in 147 specialties are here to answer your questions or offer you advice, prescriptions, and more.
Ask your questionMore of what we treat
Download HealthTap
Video visit and message your doctor
