The roof of the mouth, or the palate, is a sensitive place that can be easily disturbed. If you eat spicy foods or snore, the roof of your mouth can be aggravated. The roof of the mouth can also get ...

Have you ever woken up to find an annoying red or white bump inside your mouth or on your tongue? It might just be a canker sore, also known as an apthous ulcer. Here's more information about why and ...

Canker sores often seem to pop up out of nowhere and, once you have them, they’re often painfully hard to ignore — especially when you try to eat or even talk. So what, exactly, are canker sores? They ...

Canker sores are bacterial, non-contagious infections that occur on the gums, inner lips, inside the cheeks and sometimes on the tongue. They are usually red and round with a white center. Most canker ...

Canker sores are painful sores inside the mouth. The lesions are oval shaped with a yellow-gray center that a red ring surrounds. Canker sores progress through different stages and typically last 1–2 ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My husband suffers from canker sores. He seems to get a new one almost every week, and at different places in his mouth. These sores are very painful. We’ve tried everything to get ...

Part of the key is how long you have the sore. It’s lunchtime, and you take a nice big bite of your sandwich only to feel a familiar sting-like mouth pain. Of course, you inspect the inside of your ...

A canker sore—a painful white ulcer inside the mouth—might be brought on by stress. Or the wrong toothpaste. Or certain foods: tomatoes, peanuts, cinnamon. Or an iron deficiency. Or an allergy. Or a ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My husband suffers from canker sores. He seems to get a new one almost every week, and at different places in his mouth. These sores are very painful. We’ve tried everything to get ...