Introduction: Smoking has adverse effects on the body such as various types of cancer, coronary heart diseases, stroke, peripheral vascular and oral changes including decreased taste sensation. There have been many studies smoking threshold, but specific in a group young adult males data frequency tongue cleaning habits not reported. This study aims to determine salty threshold healthy male smo...

ZHENG, Traditional Chinese Medicine syndrome, is an integral and essential part of Traditional Chinese Medicine theory. It defines the theoretical abstraction of the symptom profiles of individual patients and thus, used as a guideline in disease classification in Chinese medicine. For example, patients suffering from gastritis may be classified as Cold or Hot ZHENG, whereas patients with diffe...

BACKGROUND Temperament refers to four different humors differentiating in individuals and, as a result, proposes specific therapy for diseases as well as special types of management (avoidance). OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to overview the relationship between dystemprament and treatment and management of diseases. METHODS A computerized search of published articles was performed usi...

we herein report a case of ventral side of tongue lipoma in a 60-year old man who referred to our department with a mass at the right ventral side of his tongue that had existed there for an unknown period of time. clinical examination revealed a yellowish nodular lesion measuring 1 cm in diameter. histological examination showed mature adipocytes and varying size vessels between lobules of the...

  Tongue base lesions have a diverse and extensive etiology. One of the benign tongue base lesions is schwannoma. Schwannoma and neurofibroma are two tumors of the peripheral nerves originating in the nerve sheaths. Schwannoma account for just over 1% of benign tumors which have been reported in the ora...

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the risk developing a second primary malignancy (SPM) in oral tongue cancer (OTC) patients, and identify characteristics survival outcomes OTC patients with an SPM. Patients first were identified from Surveillance, Epidemiology, End Result (SEER) database, further divided into only one (OOPM) group SPM group. Baseline between two groups compared. Further...

Introduction: Among different kinds of oral cavity cancers, the frequency of tongue cancer occurrence is more significant. Brachytherapy is the most common method to cure tongue cancers. Long sources are used in different techniques of tongue brachytherapy. The objective of this study is to asses the dose distribution around long sources, comparing different radioisotopes as brachytherapy sourc...

PURPOSE To describe swallowing management in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Parkinson' disease (PD), to investigate whether physiopathology determines the choice of therapeutic approaches, and to investigate whether the disease duration modifies the therapeutic approaches. METHODS This is a long-term study comprising 24 patients with idiopathic PD and 27 patients with A...