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Mouth Diseases |
Mouth Crack Not Healing05/16/2005 |
The right corner of my mouth has several splits in the skin that won`t heal. If the splits start to close and if open my mouth larger than .25 inch the split reopens. Sometimes it starts bleeding a little. The splits in the lip hurt a little. I use medical tape to try and keep the splits in the lip from opening so I can open my mouth to eat, but only if I don`t open all the way. It started to heal a little but then it got worse and turned into impetigo. A quarter size of the skin around the right corner of my mouth got infected. I treated for 7 days with Mupirocin and the impetigo went away, the cracks still won`t heal. Plus I used a hot wash cloth, 50/50 H2O & Hydrogenperoxide, and Povidone-Iodine 10% and H2O. I have tried 100% organic aloe vera and clortrimizol in the past and it healed. Recently, because it was not healing I tried rubbing alcohol and Benzalkonium chloride .13% (band-aid brand), and liquid band-aid. A long time ago I use to get a small crack in the right corner of my mouth every once and a while and I would use neosporin and that worked. Not now. I use toms natural fluoride toothpaste. No mouthwash. I don`t have any problems healing. If I get a cut on my hand it heals normally. I drink lots of water. Eat mostly healthy foods. (I shop at natural food stores) The splits looks like if you had sliced the skin open with a fine blade. The skin on the right corner of my mouth is not as flexible as on the left side. One split is in the corner of the right corner lip and is about half a centimeter long. The other is half a centimeter up the lip and about .25 centimeter long. I even put the tape on at night now to keep from opening my mouth too much. The spilt is shiny/wet red, it does not look dry or crusty. It has been one and a half months now. Please help?
The condition that you are describing sounds very much like angular cheilitis. Sometimes this is caused by bacterial organisms, but most of the time it represents a superficial infection by a common yeast called Candida albicans. This is not the yeast that is used for baking or brewing, but it is the same yeast that causes vaginal yeast infections in women. It is seen very frequently in the mouths of otherwise normal, healthy people. Every so often it may cause problems similar to what you describe, especially if the skin around the mouth is kept moist. This process should be evaluated and treated by an oral pathologist.
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Carl M Allen, DDS, MSD Professor & Director of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery and Pathology Dental Faculty Practice Section of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology College of Dentistry The Ohio State University |
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