The prevalence of scrotal tongue and geographic tongue in 70,359 Israeli schoolchildren

Abstract

Tbe prevalence of scrotal and geograpbic tongue among 70,359 Israeli schoolchildren was examined according to age, sex and fatber's country of birth. Scrotal tongue was observed in 1,96 % of the population, but increased witb age from 0,60 % at 7 years to 3.76 % at 12-18 years. Males bad a significantly higher prevalence, Tliere were significant differences in the prevalence among the different population groups examined, in that the Asbkenazi bad a higher prevalence (2,17 %) than both tbe non-Ashkenazi (1,93 %) and tbe Israeli (1,70%), Prevalence of geographic tongue was 1,14% and was not associated with age. Males had a significantly higher prevalence. Tbe differences between tbe population groups were significant. A biglily significant association was found in the occurrence of scrotal and geographic tongue.

Differences in methodologies of measuring the prevalence of oral mucosal lesions in children and adolescents

“…Less than half of the articles in this review referred to the training and calibration of examiners. Among those who reported this, only a few described the process in more detail [3,8,19,20] and the majority only mentioned the procedure, but gave no further details. It is not possible to determine whether this is an example of a failure to include important procedures related to the process of obtaining prevalence data or merely a reflection of the limitation in the length of the publications.…”

Prevalence of tongue lesions in Hungarian children

“…The prevalence of geographic tongue is said to be between 0.2 and 5%. It has been suggested, that there may be a connection between the occurrence of geographic tongue and fissured tongue (Chosack, Zadik and Eidelman, 1974; Bánóczy, Szabó and Csiba, 1975; Sedano, 1975; Farman, 1976; Ghose and Baghdady, 1982; Kullaa‐Mikkonen, Mikkonen and Kotilainen, 1982; Sawyer, Taiwo and Mosadomi, 1984; Kullaa‐Mikkonen, 1986; Salem et al , 1987; Crivelli et al , 1988; Sedano et al , 1989; Kleinman, Swango and Niessen, 1991; Kleinman, Swango and Pindborg, 1994; Dombi and Czeglédy, 1995; Arendorf and van der Ross, 1996). These variations in frequency of fissured and geographic tongue in children may be because of different diagnostic criteria used by the concerned examiners.…”

“…These variations in frequency of fissured and geographic tongue in children may be because of different diagnostic criteria used by the concerned examiners. Moreover, the prevalence of these tongue lesions also appear to depend on sex, the ethnic origin of the populations and the socio‐economic status (Chosack et al , 1974; Bánóczy et al , 1975; Kullaa‐Mikkonen et al , 1982; Kullaa‐Mikkonen, 1986; Crivelli et al , 1988; Kleinman et al , 1994; Dombi and Czeglédy, 1995; Arendorf and van der Ross, 1996). Although it is suggested that most of tongue fissuring seen in children should be considered as variations in normal anatomy, rather than an abnormality (Farman, 1976), its occurrence might be influenced by some systemic diseases.…”

“…Although it is suggested that most of tongue fissuring seen in children should be considered as variations in normal anatomy, rather than an abnormality (Farman, 1976), its occurrence might be influenced by some systemic diseases. Fissured tongue is more frequent in patients with diabetes mellitus than in healthy persons (Albrecht et al , 1996), and its prevalence is lower in children than in adults (Chosack et al , 1974; Kullaa‐Mikkonen et al , 1982; Kullaa‐Mikkonen, 1988).…”

“…Geographic tongue has been described most frequently as an idiopathic condition. However, it has been suggested that it may be a manifestation of allergy (Marks, 1967; Marks and Simons, 1979), and its prevalence may be related to sex and age (Chosack et al , 1974; Bánóczy et al , 1975; Kullaa‐Mikkonen et al , 1982; Kleinman et al , 1994). As far as we are aware, only a few studies have reported the prevalence of tongue lesions, such as partial ankyloglossia, central papillary atrophy and crenated tongue in children (Baughman and Charleston, 1971; Sedano, 1975; Sedano et al , 1989).…”