Noticing a bump on your gums can be alarming, but chances are it’s nothing to worry about. We’ll go over seven of the most common causes, how to identify them, and whether they require treatment.

Bumps on the gums can occur for many reasons, such as tooth decay, oral fibroma, and, in rare cases, mouth cancer. Treatment depends on the cause. Bumps on the gums develop for many reasons, such ...

Symptoms of a wisdom tooth infection include pain, swelling, difficulty chewing or opening the mouth, fever, and more. Treatments may include antiseptic mouthwash and antibiotics. A person’s ...

Supposedly, the wisdom tooth should grow vertically but some manage to grow in different directions to the point that it can’t even get out of the gum tissues already. This becomes the impacted wisdom ...

Wisdom teeth, also known as third molars, do not spring up from the gums until people are in their late teens, 20s, or older. They represent the last teeth to burst or emerge from beneath the gums.

Madder said she had a large bump on the roof of her mouth that had been there for at least a few months. It didn't cause her pain until the week before she had her wisdom teeth out in September.