# Lie Bumps et al **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 18, 2001, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-bumps-et-al/94022 "2001-11-18T02:51:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2001, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-bumps-et-al/94022/1 "2001-11-18T02:51:21Z")
I have gotten from time to time a little bump (my mother used to call them lie bumps). What are these? Inflamed tastebuds? I thought so but I would only get them once in a great while. Lately something odd happened. I keep getting one at the very tip o my tongue. It stays a day or so and goes away and then come back in a week then the cycle reppeats. Now in the past three weeks I have gotten it regularly AND I get the same type of bump at the roof of my mouth. So I am thinking since taste buds are up there (or are they?) Lie bumps can’t be inflamed taste buds. Yeah I know I should see a doc but by the time I can get in they disapear. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2001, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-bumps-et-al/94022/2 "2001-11-18T02:57:20Z")
here’s an old thread on the topic [fungiform papillae](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=77988) ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2001, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lie-bumps-et-al/94022/3 "2001-11-18T03:00:04Z")
Mucoceles also form on the roof of one’s mouth. If that’s what it is, it’s nothing alarming. If one is not a tobacco chewer or smoker, it’s unlikely to be a malignant lesion. Your doc or dentist would still be the best source of info if you could show it to them while it’s there.