Medically reviewed by Casey Gallagher, MD Key Takeaways Cheilitis is an inflammation of the lips that can be caused by sun damage, cosmetics, or saliva.Symptoms of cheilitis include dry, red, painful, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Actinic cheilitis (AC) is condition that affects the vermilion border of the lower lip due to sun exposure It is characterized by dryness and thickening of lips. A complete cure from AC can be ...

Actinic cheilitis (AC) is a premalignant condition affecting predominantly the lower lip, resulting from chronic solar radiation exposure. Clinically, it presents as a spectrum of lesions ranging from ...

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 ...

COVID-19 may cause patients to produce excessive saliva, resulting in angular cheilitis (AC), a painful inflammation of the corners of the mouth, according to a letter published on October 11 in Oral ...