Your mouth isn’t just where symptoms show up — it’s one of the first places the body sends signals when something isn’t right ...

A sore on the side of the tongue can develop for various reasons, including canker sores, cold sores, or a minor injury. Less commonly, a sore on the tongue may be a sign of cancer. In some cases, ...

"Most ulcers are nothing to worry about," Dr Bozic added. "But if one refuses to heal, don't wait. Getting it checked could ...

Cold sores, or oral herpes, are blisters that form on or near the lips, nose, or mouth. In some cases, cold sores can form on the tongue. HSV-1 can transmit between people through mouth-to-mouth ...

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

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).

IF you’ve got kids or grandchildren, you should know about meningitis. Cases of the potentially fatal condition, which causes ...

Canker sores can be very painful and annoying. When you get one, simple things like eating and talking can become a real drag. Canker sores are small ulcers that develop in the soft tissues of the ...

A canker sore—a painful white ulcer inside the mouth—might be brought on by stress. Or the wrong toothpaste. Or certain foods: tomatoes, peanuts, cinnamon. Or an iron deficiency. Or an allergy. Or a ...

IT MIGHT not occur to you that you can get cancer in your mouth, but over 9,000 people in England were diagnosed with the ...

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 ...

If you panic-googled “how to get rid of a canker sore” because you have one of these tender spots inside your mouth—or you feel one brewing—you’ve come to the right place. As tiny as they are, canker ...