Exfoliative cheilitis is a form of cheilitis. Ask your doctor if this is not so.
I also have exfoliative cheilitis.
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For someone trained as a medical researcher, you make some leaps of logic and unsupported assertions. You also get some facts wrong.
Some readers of this forum are ready to believe anything they read, so I don't think it's responsible for any of us to be throwing out conjectures as facts.