A healthy tongue should appear pink, moist, and covered with small bumps called papillae. When your tongue develops a white coating or discoloration, your body might be sending important signals ...

An electronic tongue that can replicate flavours like cake and fish soup could help recreate food in virtual reality, but can’t yet simulate other things that influence taste, such as smell.

Both oral lichen planus and leukoplakia affect the tissue lining of your mouth (mucosa), and their symptoms appear on your gums, inside your cheeks, or your tongue. However, the two conditions ...

Tongue bleeding can be alarming, especially if you’re bleeding from your mouth after brushing or even doing nothing at all. Biting your tongue, brushing too hard, and infections like thrush can cause ...

Hairy tongue is a condition that arises due to changes in filiform papillae, tiny cone-like hairs that normally grow on the tongue. They can become dark and lead to hairy tongue in up to 13% of the ...

Eye examinations, including subjective refraction and axial length (AL) measurements, were performed. MMD was graded from fundus photographs following the Meta-Analysis for Pathologic Myopia ...

Methods We trained DDPMs to generate retinal fundus images representing diabetic retinopathy, age-related macular degeneration, glaucoma or normal eyes. Eight board-certified ophthalmologists ...