Anbesol for Oral and Dental Conditions User Reviews

• meo...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• December 15, 2024

"Anbesol is good for canker sores! It's easily applicable and numbs whatever is hurting for a good 2-3 hours. It'll mildly burn and sting when you apply it at first (because you're putting your Anbesol-covered fingertip on a sore inside your mouth, of course it's going to hurt), but it goes away fairly quickly. Do be aware, though, that other parts of your mouth (edge of tongue, lips, teeth, etc.) are going to come into contact with the Anbesol-covered sore as well (the friction is why it hurt in the first place) and will be numbed as well. No worries if some of it gets in your saliva and you swallow—just don't go downing 500 mL of it on purpose."

• sup...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• March 19, 2023

"It's the only thing that helps me sleep with my current toothache. With Orajel, the numbness was more intense but wore off much faster. Regarding the other comment I read here, you are not supposed to use it on cold sores. Canker sores and cold sores are not the same thing! Cold sore medicine usually contains an antiviral. Canker sores are inside the mouth. I got them as a kid whenever I drank a lot of orange juice. Cold sores are a variant of the herpes virus, so yeah, numbing it won't help."

• rya...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• September 28, 2020

"Anbesol does anesthetize a cold sore, but for some reason it always seems to make the sore worse by widening or deepening it."