Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What starts as a subtle tingle or burning in your mouth can signal something more painful on the horizon: a pesky canker sore. For ...

A salt water rinse can help canker sores heal by reducing pain and promoting healing. Applying honey to a canker sore can reduce pain and make the sore smaller. Swishing coconut oil in your mouth for ...

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 ...

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 ...

That painful sore that appeared inside your cheek makes eating spicy foods pure torture and talking uncomfortable. While you might dismiss it as just another annoying canker sore that will heal on its ...

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 ...

I’ve been plagued with canker sores since I was approximately 7 years old, and I’ve cursed every single one of them. They make eating painful and embarrassing—chomping down on one can make you see ...

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.

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 ...

A woman’s mouth ulcers that would not heal for weeks and kept coming back turned out to be tongue cancer. Margot Blair, 62, a non-smoker, who didn’t drink much and was active, going to the gym five ...