If I cut your tongue off, will it grow back?

Haha! You made my night with this question! No. It will heal fast, but it will not grow back. If it's sliced or lacerated, it can heal well. One of my first patients had several tongue metastases from renal cancer and had a lumpectomy from a large... read more

I know its a strange, disgusting question, and for that I apologize. When I was in first grade, my teacher had cancer and was barely ever there. I could have sworn that my mom told me that they had to cut her tongue off, and that it would grow back, which I thought was impossible, but mym mom would never make that up. read more