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

Background and objective: Recurrent aphthous ulceration is the most common oral mucosal disease known. It presents as three types: minor (most prevalent), major and herpetiform. However, there are no ...

Dear Dr. Reitz: My 22-year-old daughter frequently gets oral ulcers. The ulcers, also called canker sores, occur in different areas of her mouth, last for about 10 days then are gone for a few months ...

Mouth ulcers may be closely linked to seemingly unrelated physical and psychological conditions, a new study has found. Genetic variants associated with canker sores are also related to inflammatory ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A minority of patients with recurrent mouth sores (aphthous stomatitis) have gluten-sensitive enteropathy, making evaluation for celiac disease appropriate in this ...

Scientists report that they have developed a method for the effective healing of, and relief of pain associated with, canker sores. Scientists report that they have developed a method for the ...

"All disease begins in the gut," said Hippocrates, Greek's "Father of Modern Medicine." Mouth ulcers are no exception. The mouth is not an island unto itself, so whatever happens to one cell in the ...

We report a retrospective series of five patients with recurrent aphthous stomatitis who were treated with apremilast (standard induction over a period of 5 days, followed by a dose of 30 mg twice ...

The primary efficacy criterion for this study was time (in days) required for complete aphthous ulcer healing. Secondary criteria were tolerability and patients' perceptions of the product's taste and ...