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I am having small black spot on tongue which appeaes for 2-3 days and disappears and later appears on different area of the tongue?

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Tongue pigmentation: Hyper pigmentation of tongue may happen from drugs, infection, nutritional deficiencies, dark skinned individual, hormone deficiency and so on, Have yourself checked out to get to the diagnosis and treatment. Most of the time they are benign lesions.

Dr Hodge agreed

Answered 5/29/2016

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