I’ve been wondering how to get rid of canker sores for quite sometime now. I can’t tell you I have a lot of canker sores, or that I get them all the time, but when I do, they’re usually on the tip of my tongue and they hurt like hell. Well, I went and done me some of that there researching they talk about in school and what I came up with is found in this article. True, there isn’t a cure for canker sores, and perhaps there never will be–you’d think they’d have found it by now–but there are methods you can employ to reduce the number of canker sore episodes you experience and the length of time you have to endure a canker sore. Local anesthetics, antibacterial mouthwashes, yogurt, and SLS-free toothpaste are your frontline defenses. The rest is a matter of folklore and gimmicks.