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Canker sores are shallow, painful sores in your mouth. They are usually red or may sometimes have a white coating over them. You might get them on the inside of your lips, the insides of your cheeks, the base of your gums or under your tongue. Canker sores are different from fever blisters, which usually are on the outside of your lips or the corners of your mouth.
Anyone can get canker sores, but women people in their teens and 20s get them more often. Canker sores may run in families, but they aren't contagious. Doctors don't know what causes canker sores, but they may be triggered by stress, poor nutrition, food allergies and menstrual periods.
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Canker sores usually go away without any treatment. For pain relief, you can try taking ibuprofen (brand name: Advil) or acetaminophen (brand name: Tylenol). Other medicines, such as Anbesol, Oragel, Orabase and Zilactin-B, might keep your canker sores from becoming irritated by eating, drinking or brushing your teeth. You put these medicines right on the sore.
You can also mix equal amounts of Milk of Magnesia and Benadryl Allergy liquid. After it's mixed, you can swish a teaspoonful in your mouth for about 1 minute and then spit it out. If you do this every 4 to 6 hours, your canker sores may hurt less.
Some people think that sucking on zinc lozenges, taking vitamin C or vitamin B complex, using a sage-and-chamomile mouthwash or taking a lysine supplement helps their canker sores heal faster.
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Rinse with warm salt water, you can put Ora-gel on the sores and take Ibuprofen.
warm salt water rinses
and motrin every 4-6 hours
that will help alot
salt water will do nothing at all. don't listen to dental assistants. they don't even go to college. once, it hurts bad enough you'll come up with some money and go to the dentist where you will be given the choice between root canal or extraction....and definitely not salt water.
You might have an ulcer or just a plain cankor sore, you can go to the store and get the numbing stuff like orajel to help, it should just go away on its own... if it doesn't then yah get to the dentist it could be something serious like a cancer lesion!
and as for the tom guy above me DENTAL ASSISTANTS CAN GO TO COLLEGE!! and get an A.S. degree if they have all requirements and go to a program at a college.... obviously he didn't go to college orelse he would know!
I like tomh311's answer. Don't listen to the dental assistants’ advice.. I don’t understand why they think they are eligible to give patient dental advice; only dentist and hygienists can. It’s definitely NOT a cancer lesion because a cancer lesion is usually painless. Don't take Motrin or Ibuprofen because they won't help. I know you have no money but you should get a dentist's opinion because it's foolish to fix something without knowing the underlying causes. It could be a tooth abscess because you have pain when chewing and it's located at the end of your tooth. Try a dental school around your area because they usually offer FREE diagnosis and you should really take an advantage of that.
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