Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A few things in life are inevitable: that pile of laundry needs to be done, taxes have to be filed, and at some point during the ...

The road to realizing I had angular cheilitis was rough. At first I thought I just had a really bad case of chapped lips. It was winter, after all, and I’m not a die-hard lip-balm user. But no matter ...

Podcaster Saron Olkaba’s viral TikTok, “Pigmented Contact Cheilitis,” has sparked a conversation about a lip reaction some people experience but may have never heard of: pigmented contact cheilitis, ...

Cracked corners of the mouth (Angular Cheilitis) Those small, painful splits at the corners of your lips are called angular ...

A closeup of a model with moisturized lips. There are all kinds of reasons your lips might be chapped. The universally annoying and uncomfortable situation of a dry, flaky, tight, cracked pout might ...

Are cracked mouth corners pointing to a B-vitamin gap? See why this happens and which everyday foods can help fix the problem ...

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 ...

AC is the acronym for actinic cheilitis and is a condition where the lower lip becomes dry, rough, and thick with scales. It is mainly caused by the excessive exposure of the lips to the sun, and for ...

Lips take a beating at this time of year. When the weather turns cold and dry, lips chap and crack. Dermatologists call this condition cheilitis. Readers sometimes refer to it as “clown mouth.” ...

The actinic cheilitis (AC) is a precancerous lip lesion seen as a consequence of chronic sun exposure. Clinically, the border between the lip’s skin and the semimucosa could be blurred; in the more ...

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 ...