What can you do about canker sores (aphthous ulcers)?

Canker sores, aphthous ulcers, and recurrent apthous ulcers all describe the same type of short term lesion that forms in the mouth.

Aphthous ulcer causes and treatments

Aphthous ulcers can be painful but are usually not given much attention.  Treatments can vary but I prefer laser treatment of aphthous ulcers or rincinol mouth rinse. The rinse is much more convenient and therefore is often the product we recommend.

Information for patients.

The above link is about ulcers in general and is what we use to diagnosis the cause of the ulcers.  The vast majority of people that get aphthous ulcers get them from stress, hormones, local factors or some combination of those.  For most patients this information is too much information, but page 4 and 5 that discusses local factors can be helpful  Also the pages on how to care for the ulcers are useful.

Causes of ulcers

RAUs can occur from cow milk protein as seen in the study by Chainani-Wu in JADA 2017

Possible remedies for ulcers

RAU studies on treatment

Aphthous ulcer honey treatment – as good (or bad) as other treatments El-Haddad 2014