Background: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most common and age-related cancers worldwide. Objectives: The present study aimed to determine the recurrence, severity, distress, and clustering of symptoms in the elderly with colorectal cancer in the selected hospitals in Isfahan from 2018 to 2019. Methods: This descriptive-analytical study was conducted over a period of six months on 300 ...

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...

BACKGROUND Dry mouth is known to cause severe pain in the intraoral structures, and many dry mouth patients have been suffering from intraoral pain. In development of an appropriate treatment, it is crucial to study the mechanisms underlying intraoral pain associated with dry mouth, yet the detailed mechanisms are not fully understood. To evaluate the mechanisms underlying pain related to dry m...

Dear Dr. Alvares: I want to bring to the attention of the JDE readership a drug-dry mouth website that I believe can be a valuable resource for our academicians and general practitioners engaged in diagnosis and treatment planning. This free, readily available website is at www.drymouth.info. This site is a comprehensive source that provides authoritative information about oral dryness and, esp...

Xerostomia is subjective sensation of dry mouth due to reduced salivary flow. Mouth dryness interferes with chewing, swallowing, speaking, with significant increase in dental caries and other oral infections that may have considerable impact on oral health. Dry mouth may be caused by systemic diseases, drugs or by radiotherapy of head and neck cancers, etiology being multifactorial, it affects ...

OBJECTIVE To determine associations between sicca symptoms, chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) symptoms and asthma in a community survey. METHODS Data was obtained from the Spring 2009 South Australian Health Omnibus Survey which sampled, via interviewer administered questionnaire, 3007 individuals aged 15 years and over whose socio-demographic distribution corresponded to South Australian populati...

Modern dental restorative techniques have evolved rapidly, in particular since the development and implementation of the modern oral implant systems. The need for implants among the general population has been clearly demonstrated and importantly, implants have been particularly useful in the patient with specific needs not generally amenable to standard or traditional dental restorative techni...