Canker sores are painful ulcers that form inside your mouth. The sores can affect daily habits like eating and drinking. Experts recommend key practices like regular teeth brushing and flossing to ...

Canker sores, or aphthous ulcers, are small, painful lesions that develop inside the mouth on soft tissues like the inner cheeks, tongue, or gums. Unlike cold sores, they are not contagious.

Canker sores and oral cancer lesions may seem similar but there are ways to tell the difference. A lesion that's red, typically flat, and painful early on is usually a canker sore (aphthous ulcer).

Canker sores occur in what’s called the oral mucosa, which is doctor-speak for the skin (it’s not actually skin) inside your mouth. Even though the mucosa is tucked away inside your cheeks, it ...

Canker sore causes Canker sores have a litany of causes including trauma, hormonal changes, stress, and food allergies, explains Hannah Kopelman, D.O., a dermatologist at Kopelman Aesthetic Surgery.

Canker sore causes Canker sores have a litany of causes including trauma, hormonal changes, stress, and food allergies, explains Hannah Kopelman, D.O., a dermatologist at Kopelman Aesthetic Surgery.

Most canker sores resolve on their own within one to two weeks. There is no cure, but over-the-counter anesthetic ointments or gels will ease the pain; you can find them in the drugstore’s ...

Mar. 23 -- (HealthDay News) - Canker sores are painful ulcers that develop in the mouth -- most often on the lip, or inside the cheek, tongue, gums or the soft palate.

Canker sore that wouldn't heal turned out to be stage 4 tongue cancer. Tongue cancer used to affect older men, who drank, smoke. More people under 40 have it.

This 35-year-old’s canker sore wouldn’t go away. It was stage 4 tongue cancer Katie Drablos had to relearn to speak and eat after undergoing surgery, chemo and radiation for tongue cancer.

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