Background: Lower serum vitamin D levels, a major public health problem worldwide, has been found to be associated with various infectious diseases, cancers, autoimmune and dermatological diseases.

In order to understand the bacterial community compositions of oral bacterial and aphthous ulcers, we collected bacterial samples from normal oral mucosa and aphthous ulcers from 24 patients using ...

People in South Korea who were diagnosed with recurrent aphthous stomatitis (RAS) were at a much greater risk for developing several autoimmune diseases, according to a study published on October 3 in ...

Canker sores are painful sores inside the mouth. The lesions are oval shaped with a yellow-gray center that a red ring surrounds. Canker sores progress through different stages and typically last 1–2 ...