ARE MY LIPS just really chapped? Do I have cold sores? These questions probably come to mind when you notice painful cracks in the corners of your mouth. But, more than likely, this dryness and ...

Angular cheilitis causes pain and inflammation on one or both corners of the mouth. Tips that may help include using prescription and over-the-counter medication, getting more iron and vitamin B, and ...

Cheilitis is a state of inflamed lips that happens due to three factors—infection of the lip and skin conditions, nutritional deficiency, or allergy, toxin, medication, and injury. The lip surface ...

Angular cheilitis, also called perleche or angular stomatitis, is a common inflammatory condition of the angles of the mouth. It is found in elderly edentulous patients as well as those who still ...

Actinic cheilitis (AC) is a premalignant condition affecting predominantly the lower lip, resulting from chronic solar radiation exposure. Clinically, it presents as a spectrum of lesions ranging from ...

Just like chapped lips, it's easy to associate the development of dry, crusty patches on the corners of our mouths with exposure to extreme cold and dryness. But it turns out that those flaky patches ...

COVID-19 may cause patients to produce excessive saliva, resulting in angular cheilitis (AC), a painful inflammation of the corners of the mouth, according to a letter published on October 11 in Oral ...