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Wednesday, February 8, 2017
I have this white sore in my mouth. What is it and what do I do about it?
So you see this in your mouth one day and it hurts a lot. Especially when you drink orange juice or eat a pizza. It's usually a small shallow sore inside your mouth (on the gums or inside lips/cheek) that may have redness around the edges. It's usually caused by stress or trauma and goes away in 1 to 2 weeks. It's a canker sore or aphthous ulcer. It's mostly a minor nuisance. You can use an anesthetic like over the counter Anbesol or use mouthwash like Listerine. There are other remedies you can use that will require a visit to a medical professional.
"Ulcers with similar clinical features but rarely resolving spontaneously with age may be associated with systemic conditions such as Behçet syndrome, auto-inflammatory syndromes, gastrointestinal disease, or immune defects such as HIV/AIDS. [1]" http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/867080-overview
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