BACKGROUND Burning mouth syndrome is a chronic disorder that is characterized by a burning sensation and a normal clinical appearance of the oral mucosa. This condition often affects the health-related quality of life in patients. As such, the aim of this study was to compare the health-related quality of life of patients with BMS and healthy controls, using the validated Portuguese versions of...

Abstract Background Despite improvements in surgical techniques, the removal of vestibular schwannoma is related to some complications. Recovery from complications often difficult and sometimes lead permanent deficits. However, treatable trigeminal symptoms may be missed atypical cases. Case presentation A 46-year-old woman complained about burning sensation on her tongue maxilla for four years...

BACKGROUND Burning mouth syndrome (BMS) is a chronic, intraoral burning sensation seen mainly in middle-aged and post-menopausal females, without identifiable oral lesions or abnormal laboratory findings, but often associated with psychogenic disorders such as depression. The latter can have a range of causes, including hormonal. OBJECTIVE Since there may be connections between BMS, psychogen...

INTRODUCTION Burning mouth syndrome (BMS) is characterized by an oral burning sensation in the absence of any organic disorders of the oral cavity. Although the cause of BMS is not known, a complex association of biological and psychological factors has been identified, suggesting the existence of a multifactorial etiology. MATERIAL AND METHOD A PubMed/Medline search was used to identify arti...

Asha R Iyengar1, Seema Patil2, R Shriyanka3, B V Subash2 1Professor and Head, Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, D A P M RV Dental College, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, 2Reader, Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, D A P M RV Dental College, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, 3Senior Lecturer, Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Bangalore Institute of Dental Sciences and Hospital...

Burning mouth syndrome (BMS) is characterized by the presence of burning, paresthesia or pain of the oral mucosa in the absence of pathologic lesions revealed during the clinical examination. Moreover, the pain may be accompanied by oral dryness, hypersensitivity to some food compounds and taste disorders. Etiopathogenesis of this condition remains unclear. Potential local causative factors inc...

BACKGROUND Burning Mouth Syndrome (BMS) is a chronic disease characterized by absence of any lesions and burning of the oral mucosa associated to a sensation of dry mouth and/or taste alterations. The purpose of our study is to estimate signs and symptoms of Temporomandibular Disorders (TMD) in patients with BMS and to investigate for the existence of an association between BMS and TMD. MATER...

Sjogren’s syndrome (SS) is characterized by dry eyes and dry mouth, but there is a wide spectrum of additional symptoms due to dryness. The treatment of dry mouth remains largely unsatisfactory and the correlation of dry mouth symptoms with either minor salivary biopsies or salivary gland flow rates remains low. These currently used methods of diagnosis (and therapeutic outcome) measure predomi...