Abscess If you notice a painful bump on the roof of your mouth, it could be an abscess—an infection that forms when bacteria ...

Symptomatic infection with the virus responsible for cold sores around the mouth–herpes simplex 1, or HSV-1 for short—may ...

But many people get cold sores that come back. Cold sores, or fever blisters, are groups of small blisters on the lip and around the mouth. The skin around the blisters is often red, swollen ...

One in five of us suffer with cold sores, or 'coleslaws' as spluttering children call them. They are created by herpes simplex, a virus that sits quietly in nerves around the mouth, only gracing ...

Here are five medical conditions your dentist might detect before your physician does — ...

Cold sores reside around the lips, while canker sores form on the delicate insides of the mouth. Why canker sores ...

Canker sores are painful ulcers, we call them aphthous ulcers, that develop in the lining of the mouth, inside your lip, on ...

Cold sores occur on the outside of the mouth and are caused by the herpes simplex virus. Canker sores are blisters inside the mouth that can occur due to injury, nutritional deficiencies ...

Smoking and other tobacco use can cause oral health problems like gum disease and tooth decay. Tooth decay is the destruction of tooth structure and can affect both the enamel and the dentin layer ...

I suffer regularly from cold sores. I've had five this year, and I read in the Mail today about tests on a new drug to kill the virus. Where can I find out about becoming one of the human testers ...