Re: Researchers Make Slow Headway in Managing Dry Mouth

“Editorial Letter” Managing Authorship Conflicts: A Guide for Researchers

Nowadays, the issue of Authorship has increasingly expanded in the academic world and has resulted in a lot of problems for scholars and the editorial board of scientific Journals. Given the increasing number of postgraduate students and subsequent research activities, every day we witness the formal and informal arguments on the ambiguity and unfairness of decisions regarding authors' names an...

Researchers should make data freely accessible.

3 Editorial If you have ever had the pleasure of leafing through old journals you would appreciate that the journals of yesteryear were quite different. A typical article from a scientific journal of the early 20th Century was much longer than those of today. Many articles in old journals contained lots of tables but few graphs. (The graph is a remarkably recent innovation.) And, surprisingly t...

Frequency of subjective dry mouth and burning mouth syndrome in elder residents of sanitariums in Tehran, 2005

Frequency of subjective dry mouth and burning mouth syndrome in elder residents of sanitariums in Tehran, 2005 Dr. M. Baharvand* - Dr. F. Hemmati** *- Assistant Professor of Oral Medicine Dept. - Faculty of Dentistry – Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences. **- Dentist. Background and Aim: Xerostomia and burning mouth syndrome are two relatively common complaints mostly encountered du...

Managing To Make It: Afterthoughts

Drug effects on salivary glands: dry mouth.

OBJECTIVE To identify drugs associated with the complaint of dry mouth. MATERIALS AND METHODS MEDLINE was searched for papers 1980-2002 using keywords, oral, mouth, salivary, drugs, dry mouth and xerostomia, and relevant secondary references were hand-searched. RESULTS Evidence was forthcoming for a number of xerogenic drugs, especially antimuscarinic agents, some sympathomimetic agents, an...