Canker sores, painful ulcers that form inside the mouth, can be slow to heal. In the absence of a cure, people often resort to numbing agents and wait out the lesions.
A patch that dispenses licorice extract directly onto the sores lessens their duration and dramatically eases pain, a preliminary test shows. Inventor Jeffrey T.
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