How to Get Rid of Canker Sores

Video Transcript

"Do you have canker sores? Well my name is Michelle and I am a dental assistant with Solutionz and I'm going to explain to you on how you can get rid of canker sores. There's several different ways so first of all, canker sores pretty much originates from if you're really stressed or if you have vitamin deficiency in your bloodstream. You'll start to notice canker sores popping up throughout your mouth. So what you want to do is you really want to make sure that you reduce the stress in your life of course as much as possible, and then you also want to start taking vitamins, whether its a multi-vitamin or vitamin C is great because the acid in the vitamin C will reduce the canker sores from appearing throughout your mouth. Or, and also too, you could also rinse with hydrogen peroxide and what this does is it really just soothes the canker sore, it relieves the discomfort that you might have from it and it also helps reduce the inflammation that you are getting from the canker sore. So you definitely want to rinse with hydrogen peroxide, take vitamin C or a multi-vitamin. Also too, you can in the meantime while you're waiting for the canker sore to completely disappear, you can go to the pharmacy, purchase like an over the counter what is called Orajel, it is an actual gel that has like antiseptic in it and it actually numbs the area and the gum tissue so you can actually place the gel on the canker sore right before you're getting ready to eat maybe a salty foods or any like type of food products that might burn the canker sore, place the gel on there, let it set for about one to two minutes until the numbingness starts to take effect then it will actually last about 30 to 45 minutes. Then you're definitely going to want rinse your mouth out with warm salt water rinses is always best. The warm salt water will help reduce the inflammation and actually soothe the discomfort that you might be having. If your canker sores start to keep persisting, you definitely want to contact your general dentist and he might want to prescribe an over like something you can get from the pharmacy as far as like a medication or antibiotic to take. So my name's Michelle, I'm a dental assistant with Solutionz and I just explained to you on how you can reduce canker sores."