Mouth ulcers, or canker sores, are common but painful. Triggers include minor injuries, food sensitivities, nutrient ...

Margot Blair wants to raise awareness of the symptoms so others will seek medical advice if something is not right.

A mouth ulcer is a painful sore that can form anywhere inside your mouth. It usually looks red, yellow or white, and you may have one or several at the same time. Know symptoms, treatment, prevention ...

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 ...

Canker sores are vexing and common. The reason they occur isn’t clear, but your toothpaste could be a factor. An ingredient often used to make toothpaste foamy, sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS), has been ...

As mouth ulcers heal, their whitish color will fade, and any surrounding redness will start to go away. You’ll also feel less pain and burning. This could happen over 1–4 weeks. Mouth ulcers are sores ...

Margot Blair from Dumfries thought she had no cause for concern after receiving the results of a biopsy in 2022, when she ...

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 are painful sores that appear in the mouth. They typically appear on the inner lips, gums, tongue, roof of the mouth, or throat and may make it difficult to eat. Eating a lot of very ...

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 ...

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 ...