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Multiple White Bumps On Gums. Oral Cancer?

There are multiple small white bumps on the gums above my front two teeth. They feel slightly rough to my tongue, and I can feel them when I run my fingernail across it. They are the size of periods or pepper grains. Please help as I am worried I have oral cancer because I also have what seems to be an abscess around my back molar. It feels rough and has red around it with white in the middle. I know it's not a canker sore..and it has a burning feeling now.
Mon, 13 May 2013
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i do not think,this could be cancer .oral cancer unlike to occur over the gingiva of anterior tooth unless u hav habit of keeping tobacco there.
what i fell this could be gingival inflammation may be gingivitis or drug induced gingivitis.check whether u are taking any medicine like phenytoin ,nifedipine ,carbamazepine etc in that case u might have fibrotic gingival enlargement .
some time evn if run over your finger over the normal gingiva thn also it will be felt fibrotic hard.
so better u go to an oral pathologist take the advice.but i believe simple scaling will serve the purpose.
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Multiple White Bumps On Gums. Oral Cancer?

i do not think,this could be cancer .oral cancer unlike to occur over the gingiva of anterior tooth unless u hav habit of keeping tobacco there. what i fell this could be gingival inflammation may be gingivitis or drug induced gingivitis.check whether u are taking any medicine like phenytoin ,nifedipine ,carbamazepine etc in that case u might have fibrotic gingival enlargement . some time evn if run over your finger over the normal gingiva thn also it will be felt fibrotic hard. so better u go to an oral pathologist take the advice.but i believe simple scaling will serve the purpose.