BACKGROUND Burning mouth syndrome (BMS) is a frequently occurring disease characterized by a burning or painful sensation in the tongue and/or other oral sites without clinical mucosal abnormalities or lesions. Its etiopathology is unknown, although local, systemic, and psychological factors have been associated with BMS. The syndrome is multifactorial, and its management remains unsatisfactory...

Mariana Siviero, Manoel Jacobsen Teixeira, José Tadeu Tesseroli de Siqueira, Sı́lvia Regina Dowgan Tesseroli de Siqueira I Orofacial Pain Team, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil. II Neurology Department, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil. III Head of the Orofacial Pain Team, Dentistry Division, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Sao Paulo, ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to analyze fungiform papillae density in patients with burning mouth syndrome (BMS) and xerostomia. STUDY DESIGN In this cross-sectional clinical study, sixty patients were included (20 with BMS, 20 with xerostomia and 20 healthy controls). The fungiform papillae density was analyzed over a small region on the anterior tip of the tongue with the aid of a di...

Clinical characteristics and treatment responses were studied in 130 patients with burning mouth syndrome (BMS). Most patients were postmenopausal women, and the tongue was the most frequently afflicted site. Although 39% of the patients complained of dry mouth, no causative factors were evident. Therefore BMS is assumed to be a functional disorder. This was at least partially confirmed because...

Public communication related to emergency, unplanned, or "wildfire" biomass burning is best understood as a function of the audience for that communication. Two enduring communication models, the Health Belief Model and the Stages of Change or Transtheoretical Model, are instructive in analyzing and preparing differing communication response strategies that are indicated for communities with va...

El sı́ndrome de boca ardiente (SBA) se conoce también como boca escaldada, ardor bucal, glosodinia, glosopirosis, estomatodinia, estomatopirosis o disestesia oral. Se caracteriza por dolor o sensación de ardor, escozor o picazón, a veces aspereza, sobre todo en la lengua, paladar duro y labio inferior, en ausencia de datos clı́nicos o de laboratorio que justifiquen estos sı́ntomas. Puede acompañar...

Burning mouth syndrome (BMS) is a chronic pain condition characterized by pain, burning sensations and dryness within an oral mucosa, without any clinical changes of the latter. It occurs approximately seven times more frequently in women, mostly in perimenopausal age. The psychiatric aspect of BMS is significant: the most frequent co-morbidities are depression and anxiety disorders, and a numb...