Geographic Tongue and Fissured Tongue in 348 Patients with Psoriasis: Correlation with Disease Severity

Table 1

Prevalence of fissured tongue and geographic tongue in patients with psoriasis (PG) and healthy controls (HC).

Oral lesion	PG; (%)	HC; (%)	Odds ratio (95% CI)
Fissured tongue	125 (36%)	70 (20%)	3.45 (2.44–4.91)	<0.001
Geographic tongue	43 (12%)^**	10 (3%)^**	4.76 (2.30–10.8)	0.002

Fisher’s exact test, 2-tailed; CI: confidence interval.
80% of patients had both geographic tongue and fissured tongue.