Background: Allergic contact cheilitis may appear after exposure to different substances, including dental materials, toothpastes, cosmetics, foods and medications. Objective: To compare the rate of ...

Cheilitis is a state of inflamed lips that happens due to three factors—infection of the lip and skin conditions, nutritional deficiency, or allergy, toxin, medication, and injury. The lip surface ...

Causes of cheilitis: Your lips can crack any time of the year, often flaring during illness, vitamin and mineral deficiencies (B vitamins, iron, zinc), or prolonged exposure to irritants (Image: ...

Just like chapped lips, it's easy to associate the development of dry, crusty patches on the corners of our mouths with exposure to extreme cold and dryness. But it turns out that those flaky patches ...

This study examined the prevalence of toothpaste allergy as a cause of cheilitis among Israeli patients. We added the use of a toothpaste patch test to lower the rates of false-positive and ...