Anatom3DMouth & throat
Cavitas oris · Ústa a hrdlo
Digestive system
Looks like
Lips, 32 teeth, a muscular tongue and a hard then soft roof, kept wet by salivary glands.
What it does
Chewing, tasting, speaking and starting digestion.
Keeping it well
Fluoride toothpaste works on the tooth surface, not from inside: it cuts decay by roughly a quarter in trials, so spit rather than rinse, and a smear is enough for a small child. How often sugar is eaten matters more than how much.
Its parts
Related conditions
- 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (DiGeorge)
- Acromegaly
- Amyloidosis (AL and ATTR)
- Bad breath (halitosis)
- Botulism
- Burning mouth syndrome
- Candida & fungal infection
- Chickenpox (varicella)
- Chronic neuropathic pain
- Chronic pain syndrome
- Cleft lip and palate
- Cold sores (herpes simplex)
- Common cold
- Dental abscess
- Diphtheria
- Fibromyalgia
- Fractures
- Fragility fracture
- Frailty & falls in older age
- Guillain-Barré syndrome
- Hand, foot and mouth disease
- Head and neck cancer
- Heat exhaustion & heatstroke
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Impacted wisdom teeth
- Infectious mononucleosis
- Influenza
- Lichen planus
- Lyme disease
- Malnutrition & refeeding syndrome
- Mouth ulcers (aphthous stomatitis)
- Mumps
- Muscular dystrophy
- Myasthenia gravis
- Obstructive sleep apnoea
- Osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease)
- Osteomalacia & rickets
- Osteomyelitis (bone infection)
- Osteoporosis
- Paget's disease of bone
- Pemphigus vulgaris
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Rabies
- Restless legs syndrome
- Rhabdomyolysis
- Salivary gland stones
- Salivary gland tumours
- Sarcoma
- Sarcopenia
- Scarlet fever
- Shingles (herpes zoster)
- Sjögren's disease
- Stevens–Johnson syndrome / toxic epidermal necrolysis
- Teeth grinding (bruxism)
- Tetanus
- Tongue-tie (ankyloglossia)
- Tonsillitis & quinsy
- Tooth decay & gum disease
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies
- Vitamin D deficiency