Anal fissure, mouth sores... Could it be Crohn's?

Hi, I'm 17 years old and my main concern is that I've been suffering from anal fissures for about two years now. I believe the fissure appeared for the first time because of hard stool. It healed in about two weeks, but often when I have hard stool again, it comes back. There are periods of time when it's fine, but then there would come a period when it would reopen every month, like right now. Sometimes there's a bit of bright red blood present, though not in the majority of cases. Other than that, I'm concerned beacuse I also get mouth sores, but they started appearing around the time when I got braces (also around 2 years ago) and I always thought that is the reason behind it. I have coeliac disease - diagnosed about 10 years ago - but I don't feel sick, vomit, lose weight, have unexplained fever, diarrhea.... I told my doctor about the fissure problem at my annual checkup for coeliac's. She took stool for examination/lab analysis and the results were ok, but I'm not sure what she was checking and which diseases can be found through this kind of examination. So don't know, I worry a lot about that, and therefore I'd like to hear what it could be. (oh , and p.s. there's no history of Crohn's in my family as far as I'm aware)

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