BACKGROUND a distressing complication of radiotherapy treatment for head and neck cancer is xerostomia (chronic oral dryness). Xerostomia is difficult to treat conventionally but there are reports that acupuncture can help. We conducted a feasibility study to examine the acceptability of a standardised group acupuncture technique and adherence to group sessions, together with acceptability of t...

Oral Lichen planus（OLP）is a chronic autoimmune cell-mediated inflammatory disease. Most OLP patients complain of xerostomia/dry mouth due to changes in the oral mucosal protective barrier. Mucin 5B（MUC5B）is predominate gel-forming mucin cavity that protects underlying tissue from mechanical damage, chemical insult, and pathogenic microbes. This study aims assess MUC5B subjects correlate its rol...

BACKGROUND Diabetes mellitus is one of the most prevalent metabolic diseases, with complications such as decreased salivary flow rate and xerostomia. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to determine the salivary flow rate and xerostomia in type I and II diabetic patients in comparison with healthy controls. METHODS This case-control study was performed on diabetic patients of a private office in Bab...

BACKGROUND Medication-induced salivary gland dysfunction (MISGD), xerostomia (sensation of oral dryness), and subjective sialorrhea cause significant morbidity and impair quality of life. However, no evidence-based lists of the medications that cause these disorders exist. OBJECTIVE Our objective was to compile a list of medications affecting salivary gland function and inducing xerostomia or...

Introduction: Xerostomia is a dry mouth condition caused by many factors, including the potential of neuroinvasiveness and neurotropism from severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-Cov-2). Tetanus causes muscle spasm, rigidity, also as risk factor for xerostomia. Objective: To discuss pathogenesis xerostomia in patients with coronavirus di-sease-2019 (Covid-19) tetanus. Case: A 66...

INTRODUCTION Xerostomia is a subjective complaint of mouth/oral dryness, caused by a reduction in normal salivary secretion due to different causes. Even though there are many available treatment modalities to enhance salivary flow, the therapy often remains unsatisfactory. The low-level laser therapy (low-level laser irradiation, photo-biomodulation) has been extensively used as a new, non-inv...

Xerostomia is defined as a subjective sensation of having a dry mouth (Fox et al., 1987) and is reported by the patient (Guggenheimer & Moore, 2003; Moore et al., 2001). The subjective feeling of dry mouth (xerostomia) is one of the oral manifestations of diabetes (Sreebny et al., 2006; von Bültzingslöwen et al., 2007). Xerostomia results from a reduction in saliva secretion, although it may oc...