Tongue body color in african-american patients

[Guest guest]

I was wondering if there are people on the list who have some experience

treating african-american patients and have noticed that their tongue

bodies tend to be lighter in color compared to caucasian patients. I

only have a few african-american patients, and I've noticed that they

tend to have fairly pale tongue bodies and I wonder if that is just a

normal trait?

thanks

Geoff

[Guest guest]

I think that the important thing here is to remember the background in

which you are looking at the tongue. I think that the tongue looks

paler in relation to the skin color, but that if the same tongue were

seen in a caucasian patient it would not look as pale.

Marnae

At 07:31 PM 6/24/2003 -0700, you wrote:

I was wondering if there are

people on the list who have some experience

treating african-american patients and have noticed that their

tongue

bodies tend to be lighter in color compared to caucasian patients.

I

only have a few african-american patients, and I've noticed that

they

tend to have fairly pale tongue bodies and I wonder if that is just

a

normal trait?

thanks

Geoff

 

 

[Guest guest]

Thanks Marnae - but I'm not sure that's what is going on. I could take

some digital pix and then compare them on screen I suppose.

Geoff

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>

> Re: Tongue body color in african-american patients

>

> I think that the important thing here is to remember the

> background in

> which you are looking at the tongue. I think that the tongue

> looks paler

> in relation to the skin color, but that if the same tongue

> were seen in a

> caucasian patient it would not look as pale.

>

> Marnae

>

> At 07:31 PM 6/24/2003 -0700, you wrote:

> >I was wondering if there are people on the list who have

> some experience

> >treating african-american patients and have noticed that their tongue

> >bodies tend to be lighter in color compared to caucasian patients. I

> >only have a few african-american patients, and I've noticed that they

> >tend to have fairly pale tongue bodies and I wonder if that is just a

> >normal trait?

> >thanks

> >Geoff