hi there my mother has a hard long white/pink mass growing under her lower left teeth on the outside between her teeth and her cheek, it goes from her front pointed tooth to behind her last molar tooth on her left side, what is the chances of cancer and what is the proceedure at this point to find out what exactly it is?  keep in mind she is scared to death early this week she was loosing her eye sight hearing and numbness to left side of her face
Hello and thanks for consulting Chat Doctor. Without seeing the lump to learn its exact location, color, x-ray films, only general observation can be listed. This means your case may be completely different from some other case of pink hard mass. With that being said, many lumps--hard or soft--are often signs of infection. The tooth may be infected with cavity bacteria, or rotting of dead nerve if the tooth has been dead. The hard mass can be