😛😝Hairy tongue (Lingua villosa)😜🤪📚It is Simply HYPERTROPHY and KERATOSIS of FILIFORM PAPILLAE with Pigmentation of this tissue due to bacterial, fungal and chemical discoloration.This alternating happens usually in older male patients and it can be associated with many factors such as smoking and medication.Hairy tongue is basically as far as we know a multiethiologic and at the same time idiopathic condition which can be linked to many factors such as:🚬Smoking😖Emotional stress 💊Corticosteroids 💉Chemotherapy🤢Lack of oral hygiene 🤮Reflux and GI-disorders🍄Candida albicans🔬Broad spectrum Antibiotics ☢️Radiotherapy 🥕🥦🍋And vitamin deficiency (Vit.A, Vit.B)Lingua villosa has a good prognosis and its not painful. It may only cause an unpleasant feeling by swallowing (tickling ), halitosis and esthetic problems.Cleaning tongue surface by toothbrush and local antimycotics may help patients.————————————