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Suggest Treatment For A Hard Lump On The Hard Palate

Hi ! I noticed a very tiny , half of a rice size, hard lump on my hard plate. I wen to see my doctor, and he said it was nothing. But it got a little bigger over two months, so I went to an ENT, and he said wait for another 6weeks. I am concerned. I don t want to miss the good chance to treat it if it is something bad. But doctors just keep telling me to wait. It is a rice size now. No painful but hard. It is the same color as the nearby skin. What can I do now?
posted on Wed, 3 Sep 2014
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It could be bony prominence of your hard palate or it could be related to sometimes after having hard food . The size of a rice grain is not significant in size so that is probably why your doctor had asked you to wait . If it's bothering you too much you could do warm saline gargles which would help reduce the size . In addition some anti inflammatory could help .
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Suggest Treatment For A Hard Lump On The Hard Palate

Hi It could be bony prominence of your hard palate or it could be related to sometimes after having hard food . The size of a rice grain is not significant in size so that is probably why your doctor had asked you to wait . If it s bothering you too much you could do warm saline gargles which would help reduce the size . In addition some anti inflammatory could help .