Most causes of a sore throat and tongue are not serious. They will resolve on their own or can be treated with the help of your healthcare provider. Less often, your symptoms may be signs of a serious ...

What starts as a subtle tingle or burning in your mouth can signal something more painful on the horizon: a pesky canker sore. For some, the ulcers are just a mild annoyance. But for many of us, they ...

Canker sores and oral cancer lesions may seem similar but there are ways to tell the difference. A lesion that's red, typically flat, and painful early on is usually a canker sore (aphthous ulcer).

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 ...

Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) most commonly causes cold sores while HSV-2 is associated with genital herpes. But, it’s also possible to contract an HSV-2 infection in the mouth from sex without ...

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 ...

Canker sores are inflamed spots in your mouth that cause pain and typically heal within a couple of weeks. Oral cancer may cause raised spots or patches in your mouth that worsen over time. Share on ...

Katie Drablos was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer in April 2021. A specialist removed a spot of tongue cancer and found lesions that had spread to her neck. The 35-year-old is recovering now, a year ...

Lie bumps are small red or white bumps that occur on the tongue. They can cause pain and discomfort but usually go away after 2–3 days. Dietary choices, trauma to the tongue, and stress may increase ...

If you’re somebody who seems to be extra sensitive to spicy foods or maybe noticed some weird patches on your tongue that come and go over time, you may be one of the many people who experience ...

In the early days of COVID, it felt like we were learning new things about the virus in real time daily. Its severity, especially for specific populations like older adults and the immunocompromised, ...

When Mari Henderson read a story about a woman the same age as her with tongue cancer, she asked for a biopsy. It helped her receive an early diagnosis. For several weeks, Mari Henderson felt a canker ...