Signs & Symptoms

SMALL BLACK LESION

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In no other symptoms are present and if the discoloration is in the cheek tissue and next to a tooth that has a very large filling, it is an "amalgam tattoo" Some the silver from the filling has leaked into the cheek tissue over time and has tattooed the cheek. Usually no follow up is needed

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