Abstract: The invention provides a tongue scraping and cleaning device, including a head configured to be comfortably moved along the top surface of a tongue inside and outside of a mouth, the head including a base portion having an upper face and a lower face and a plurality of spaced-apart blades formed with active scraping surfaces and at least partly projecting from the upper face so as to cause the material scraped off the tongue to be trapped between the blades, and means for grasping the head and imparting controlled scraping movements along the tongue to effect its cleansing.