Multiple painless bumps in mouth?

If it is not dental-related, he needs to see his primary care physician and then possibly an
ear, nose and throat (ENT) guy.

The dentist’s opinion is a good start. Wed. is only two days away.

Glad your husband has finally stopped.

I am glad he is having it checked. Maybe it is HPV? The dentist should be able to check for it I think, or he will recommend you to the right type of specialist.

< is a dentist- there is such a thing called a ‘mucocele’ that is a blocked salivary gland. Painless, and usually located under the tonque. Usually resolves but doesn’t always, related to trauma. The other bumps can be easily checked at his Wednesday appointment, easy to biopsy. Good luck and don’t worry. There are a multitude of HARMLESS things that could be causing this. PS changes caused by dipping are usually quite specific looking and this doesn’t sound related to that- you’ll find out Wednesday.

@Jleslie Of all the things that this could possibly be, you come up with an STD? I’m sure if you had the same question here, you wouldn’t like someone to suggest your husband had an STD of the mouth.

@chyna How many women do you know who are positive for HPV of the cervix? We talk about PAP smears like no big deal, that we should get them done regularly, we advise it to our friends and jellies. I wish my mouth and anus and all other women were tested at least every 3 years for HPV in their mouth at least, especially if they have been positive for cervical HPV. Maybe Farrah Fawcett would be alive, and the soap opera actress Colleen Zenk Pinter would not have had half her tongue cut out, and I believe Michael Douglas also stated his oral cancer was HPV related. Doctors often don’t test for the virus even when there are symptoms. As long as we are uptight as a society about STD’s we will continue to be sick and die, and spread the virus more. And, it makes me sick the AMA and CDC and other associations does not do more to rienforce the need for some sort of routine testing, or at least the risk.

I have no idea what the symptoms are for it, and if what the OP describes could be related, but I am glad he is getting it checked out. I would lean towards our resident dentist @trailsillustrated giving great advice on possibilities, but spreading the awareness of STD’s is smething I tend to do when I have an openng for it, our of concern for people, all of us all people. If you feel I am a little overzealous about it, I am sorry for that, but I don’t really feel badly about informing people in general that your SO can give you cancer so to speak. The OP had already looked up cancer symptoms, seems that it most likely is not cancer, thank goodness. I don’t think I wrote anything too scary to mention.

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@JLeslie The symptoms don’t seem to match HPV either. Also, he had a blood test for STDs before we got married, about a month ago, because he was sexually active before we met and I wasn’t, so he wanted to make sure he was healthy before we thought about the possibility of having children one day.

@livelaughlove21 There isn’t a blood test for HPV. There are blood tests for HSV and HIV. You have to have a sample of it to look at the tissue or DNA test it. Men are not tested for it. That is why women are so vulnerable and we get PAP smears every year. There is the vaccine for it also of course, but that just covers a few strains, the ones most likely to cause cancer. I see stats as low as 50% of all women have been exposed to HPV to as high as 80%. It is extremely common. This is why I get kind of upset when people are horrified a sex partner might have HPV, most of us do, and we don’t know it, and we could have caught it at any time in many ways. I think probably if it were HPV it would look like cauliflower/warts not just small pimple like things, is that what you found with your research?

@JLeslie Good to know. And, yes, that’s what I found.

Well, the dentist said that nothing in his mouth looks like cancer and those bumps have probably been there forever. He says my husband is just in panic mode and making himself worry. So, that’s good news. But he also says he can see where the dip has caused irritation on his lip/gums where he put the tobacco most often. So he’ll have to follow up every two months. Hopefully this was enough of a scare to keep him off of it for good, but I’m glad nothing is really wrong.