ORAHEALTH in the News Press Releases

BELLEVUE, WASH— Orahealth USA, Inc. announced today that its new product, Cankermelts-GX, is now available at Drug Fair and Cost Cutters to help the one out of five Americans who recurrently suffer in silence from painful canker sores. The product was invented by Jeff Haley, a successful patent attorney with degrees in law, chemistry and engineering who set out to cure his own canker sores.

Cankermelts-GX is the only medication that applies the age-old remedy Glycyrrhiza extract from the root of the licorice plant in a patented time-released oral medicated patch that naturally dissolves in the mouth over two to six hours. Used for canker sores since Roman times, licorice remains today one of the most important herbs in traditional Chinese medicine.

In a scientific study of Cankermelts-GX, patients using Cankermelts on a sore up to 16 hours per day reported healing times between one and three days for 98% of the ulcers treated. “These results are remarkable considering the typical healing time is seven to 14 days” said Michael Martin, DMD, PhD, associate professor, Department of Oral Medicine, University of Washington. Moreover, patients reported that the discs began relieving pain within minutes and continued to do so as long as they were in place.

“If applied promptly at the onset of a new sore, Cankermelts heal the sore before it hurts,” Haley said. “People prone to canker sores will want to store Cankermelts in their medicine cabinets at all times, just like aspirin and bandages.”

May 15, 2005