There are many reasons you can develop bumps on your tongue. Often, these growths are common, not serious, and tend to resolve without intervention. Studies have found over 50% of people ...

Bumps on your tongue may be lie bumps, canker sores, cold sores, or in rare cases, oral cancer. Lie bumps are common and happen when the small bumps on your tongue become inflamed. Oral cancer is ...

Classic lingual papillitis causes a few red, whitish, or yellow-colored raised bumps on one area of the tongue—typically on the tip or sides. Symptoms usually clear up within one to five days ...

The tongue is covered in lots of little bumps. On the walls and grooves of these bumps are thousands of tiny taste buds, too small for the human eye to see. The buds sense the taste of everything ...