Yesterday I noticed a small red bump just inside my mouth on the left side. It looks like a pimple, however I am concerned by the fact that it’s inside my mouth - not a place where I would usually get one.
This is not a request for medical advice yada yada yada, just want to know if it is possible for a pimple to actually form in that area.
Sounds like a cold sore. Don’t let the “herpes” scare you – the ones in your mouth are different.
I’ve had those before too. Wonder if QtM will pop in with his opinion?
A zit is the result of a clogged sweat gland in the skin. I don’t think we have sweat glands on the inside of our mouths, so zits here are probably impossible.
Don’t actual pimples form in pores or hair follicles? Which you don’t have inside your mouth?
ETA: Ninja’d.
Maybe it’s a canker sore.
http://images.google.ca/images?hl=en&source=hp&q=canker%20sore&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
Yes, I’m thinking a canker sore/mouth ulcer rather than a cold sore. I get them from time to time; usually on the interior of my left cheek. It gradually worsens and then clears up on its own.
Pop it and report back.
With video.
Yes, it wouldn’t technically be a pimple but it could be a small infection which could get red and inflamed and have a whitehead of pus, just like a pimple. To the untrained eye it would look like a pimple. To a doctor it would look like…something else.
Could be a herpetic cold sore, could be an apthous ulcer, could be a mucocele, could be a plugged salivary duct, could be other things too.
I’m not going to try to make further guesses or diagnose without being able to take a good history and do an exam.
A small painless raised bump on the buccal mucosa near the molars is often the result of a small salivary calculus stuck (usually temporarily) at the exit of the parotid gland duct (called Stenson’s duct).
See here for a representative photograph, although in this photograph the thing that looks like a pimple is actually a small mucosal ulcer overlying the duct papilla (exit).
As QtM mentions, it could be early cancer, too, so we don’t like to make a diagnosis or even a very strong diagnostic suggestion, over a message board.
You can get ordinary abscesses in the mouth, along with a host of other lesions; small ulcerations are more common than pimply-looking things.
In other words, Rigmarole, you need to move to Wisconsin and commit a felony, stat!
Or what might be easier… if it doesn’t go away in a couple of days, pop in and visit your dentist or primary care doc; they’ll be qualified to tell you what it is.
I often get canker sores, too (my mouth is just a circus of various sores and weirdnesses, for some unknown reason), and they sometimes have a small, white area in the middle that kind of looks like the head of a pimple. Canker sores usually clear up on their own in a day or two; if I get one in an area that is constantly irritated (where a crooked tooth rubs on the inside of my mouth or something), I might need to take more measures to get it to clear up.
So? How’s your mouth pimple, Rigamarole?
