Tongue scraping is the process of running a simple tool across your tongue to remove bacteria, food particles, and other debris from the surface. It's been around for hundreds of years, with ...

Jessica Tappenden-Rowell, 23, had her tongue rebuilt with a skin graft from her tattooed forearm Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared in Billboard and ...

Cracks, grooves, or clefts appear on the top and sides of the tongue. These fissures only affect your tongue. Fissures on the tongue vary in depth, but they may be as deep as 6 millimeters.

A dental expert isn’t holding his tongue about a viral oral hygiene trend that could do more harm than good — and even kill you. “What many don’t understand is that a tongue scraper can ...

But recently, I’ve taken on the extra habit of tongue scraping. The barrier for entry was low — a $10 metal instrument that takes maybe 30 seconds (if that) out of my day — and, now ...

It was a referral following a blood test I'd had the day before we went abroad. About six weeks earlier, my tongue had felt sore. I initially thought I must have bitten it. But, then, two white ...