Canker sore hurts bad!!!?!


Question: So the other day I was in the dentist and I now have a pretty big canker sore!!! I was wondering if anyone knew how to get rid of it at a quick rate? I use orajel and brush and gargle w/ salt. So any other suggestions????


Answers: So the other day I was in the dentist and I now have a pretty big canker sore!!! I was wondering if anyone knew how to get rid of it at a quick rate? I use orajel and brush and gargle w/ salt. So any other suggestions????

I'm a dentist.

There's very little that can be done. Many things have been tried--ranging from chemical cautery to electrocautery to ablation with a laser, but the results are marginal at best. Generally, treatment of such sores is purely palliative in nature, and you must simply wait for the sore to heal on its own.

What you are doing is exactly what I recommend for my own patients.

For those that are in very severe pain, I may prescribe them a stronger topical anesthetic, but this is rare. Orajel is almost always adequate.

The Dr. that I work with has this medicine that gets rid of the canker sore almost immediately its called debacteroil its basically an acid that burns out the virus. However you cant get that over the counter so try rinsing with peroxyl (mouth wash with peroxide) and buy a paste called orabase its a band aide for the mouth plus it has the numbing effect.





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