It’s quite distasteful. Your last meal is usually to blame if there’s a bad taste lingering in your mouth — but it could also ...

Successful management of denture-associated candidiasis relies heavily on mechanical disinfection rather than pharmacologic ...

Unusual changes in how food tastes are often overlooked. A bitter aftertaste, metallic sensation, or sudden dullness in ...

Patients who experienced mild or no upper respiratory symptoms developed tongue ulcers within a few days of testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 in a new analysis, described in a letter to the editor on ...

Q: After I developed a black, hairy tongue I saw an ENT specialist who prescribed a CAT scan. It showed that I had a fungal infection. Since then, many different medical professionals all asked me the ...

Second only to the gut, the mouth is home to a diverse community of bacteria, known as the oral microbiome, with more than 700 species alone colonising our tongues, teeth and tissue. This means the ...

You may have heard about the connection between HPV infection and certain types of cervical cancer, but did you know HPV infection is also related to a higher risk of throat and mouth cancer? To ...

Recent infection with monkeypox virus can initially present with very few pronounced clinical symptoms and lacking signs of infection, and only few skin vesicles may be visible. Stefan Schlabe and ...