For clinicians, managing recurrent aphthous stomatitis means looking beyond the ulcer to triggers and systemic links.

Using a salt water rinse (not plain salt) can help improve canker sores, easing the pain and promoting healing. Other home and over-the-counter remedies also help, with options including baking soda, ...

Canker sores often seem to pop up out of nowhere and, once you have them, they’re often painfully hard to ignore — especially when you try to eat or even talk. So what, exactly, are canker sores? They ...

Those tiny white spots inside your mouth might be small in size, but they deliver pain far beyond their dimensions. Canker sores affect nearly everyone at some point, making simple pleasures like ...

Mouth ulcers, also known as canker sores, are tiny, uncomfortable lesions that generally appear on the lips or tongue. They typically appear on the inner lips, gums, tongue, roof of the mouth, or ...

Chickenpox recovery hinges on diet. Avoid spicy, salty, crunchy, and acidic foods that irritate mouth sores and slow healing.

Dear Dr. Gott: In a past column, you responded to a reader whose daughter suffered from constant mouth sores. You told her to switch toothpastes and use Orajel and similar products. I agree with your ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The healing of wounds in the mouth and on other mucous membranes appears to be slowed in people with a depressed mood, according to a report in Psychosomatic Medicine.

A Lancaster County pediatrician said there’s an uptick of hand, foot and mouth disease. That’s not common for this time of ...

Can Ulcerative Colitis Cause Mouth Sores? Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a type of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). UC is a chronic (lasting and persistent) condition that mainly affects the colon, part ...