>Cold sores are usually on the corners of the lip, oozy, yellow crust. Rather >than being >round, they are shaped more like an erosion. Is it possible that this is angular cheilitis? http://www.thebody.com/Forums/AIDS/Oral/Archive/Angular/Q4334.html http://www.nutrition4health.org/NOHAnews/NNS95OralYeastInfections.htm photos: http://www.hivdent.org/slides/angular_cheilitis_20.htm From time to time I seem to get this although I have never been diagnosed with it. For me an over-consumption of citrus fruit seems to prompt it... The condition is not a diagnosis of HIV - I notice that many websites that mention and describe the term also seem to be HIV related. Marilyn ---------------------------- [log in to unmask] ----------------------------