Publish: 13:57, 30 Jan, 2025

Easy ways to prevent mouth ulcers

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Easy ways to prevent mouth ulcers
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Mouth ulcers are small sores that form on your gums, lips, tongue, inner cheeks or roof of your mouth. They're usually not dangerous, but they can be a huge inconvenience. If you get them often, worry not. According to Dr Katie Foster, a board-certified pediatric dentist, there's a simple way to get rid of them.

In a recent video, Dr Katie shared causes and prevention tips for mouth ulcers. She also suggested that if ulcers seem to affect you or your children more often than normal, one should ask their dental provider.

Causes

According to the dentist, mouth ulcers can pop up inside your mouth for several reasons: trauma caused by a toothbrush, falling and hurting your mouth or while playing any kind of sports activity.

Ulcers can also occur because of a viral infection, stress (can be emotional stress, stress caused by going to bed late, while travelling, etc), food allergies or other types of sensitivity issues from SLS (sodium lauryl sulfate), food items, latex, or more can also lead to ulcers.

Prevention

To prevent ulcers from recurring or popping up in the first place, here are a few things to do, as suggested by Dr Katie: If they are common, try to determine the cause behind them. Try switching toothpaste to an SLS-free option. It is an easy switch.

Additionally, lots of people can be sensitive to sodium lauryl sulfate, which is found in a lot of daily-use items like soaps, shampoos, body washes and toothpaste.

Limit your salt and/or sugar intake. Lastly, she suggested, consume vitamin B12 (ideally injected).

Source: Hindustan Times

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