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The road to realizing I had angular cheilitis was rough. At first I thought I just had a really bad case of chapped lips. It was winter, after all, and I’m not a die-hard lip-balm user. But no matter ...

Q. I used to suffer from painful raw cracks in the corners of my mouth. My dentist suggested I use an inexpensive, over-the-counter antifungal cream (such as athlete’s foot cream). Within a week, the ...

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 ...

Vitamin B12 deficiency: Painful symptom found on both sides of the mouth – what to spot VITAMIN B12 deficiency can quickly escalate to anaemia - a lack of healthy red blood cells, which means that ...

Cracked lips are very common especially in the dry season but cracked lips or mouth corners aren’t. Some people take this issue lightly whereas it can get serious overtime. Your cracked mouth corners ...

Dear Dr. Reitz: During the cold dry winter months, I frequently develop red sore cracking in the corners of my mouth. Moisturizers don’t improve the situation. What causes this problem, and is there a ...

Cracked corners of the mouth are a common condition which is also known as perleche or angular cheilitis. The term is French which means ‘to lick’, and this is because as you would know people tend to ...

Basia Wirkus from Poland asked this question. And here is Dr. Carsten Lekutat’s answer. In the winter, many people suffer from dry skin, chapped lips, and even small cracks in the corner of the mouth.