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health advisory Hospital Dentists Yu 2007-11-11 18:17:08

for you dirty minded people its not like that =P well yeah every single day i wake up with this white gooey substance around my mouth/lips in the morning...its sticky and stiff, sometimes grayish..and it gets prettty annoying. What is it? what is it called? why does it happen? what can i do to prevent it?

Answer:

Sounds like you drool in your sleep. The spit sometimes dries overnight, leaving that nasty residue on your face. Drooling can be caused by a number of factors:

1.) An overactive salver gland

2.) Sinuses

3.) Tongue-thrusting

I don't know if there is a solution to cure the first two, but tongue-thrusting is the main problem i had when i used to drool a lot. Tongue-thrusting is is when the tongue doesn't position in the mouth correctly at a period of rest. When you swallow, your tongue goes forward instead of up and back. You're drooling because your tongue is not holding back that spit, nor swallowing it correctly. Talk to your dentist or orthodontist, because tongue-thrusting affects the alignment of your teeth, pushing them forward. Tongue-thrusting is a relatively new discovery, something dentists didn't figure out until a few years ago. I'd recommend a tongue-thrusting specialist, but you probably don't live anywhere near this person.

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heroin

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Its ur dried up spit from throughout the night. WASH UR FACE!

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i think it is drool???

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I get it too but I understand that it is a form of thrush from my asthma medicines. Only a good mouthwash keeps it at bay and it still comes back if I am not drinking enough water.

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It might just be drool that dries up at the edge of your mouth as you sleep. I used to scratch the edge of my mouth cause I didn't wash it off when I was 8, then my friend started asking other people whether they thought I was gonna get infected or something. Then one of the smarter kids told her that al that was going to happen was that I might scratch off a bit of the skin there. Sheesh.

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break up with ur bf hun

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maybe its because u drool when u sleep and maybe it dries and it turns white and gooey on ur lips.

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It's the mixture of dead skin cells with drool. If you sleep with your mouth open excess drool has to get out one way our another and I suggest Listerine at night. if not try sleeping with only your nose but eventually throughout the night you'll open your mouth. No way of avoiding it, if your confident there's a way to get rid of it go to your local dentist.

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um some old 60 year old is sneaking in at night having sex with you then giving you an illegal pill to make you forget? hehe :P

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you got the vd son.

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TYRONE,