Burning mouth syndrome: a review on diagnosis and treatment

Burning mouth syndrome (BMS) is defined as a chronic pain condition characterized by a burning sensation in the clinically healthy oral mucosa. It is difficult to diagnose BMS because there is a discrepancy between the severity, extensive objective pain felt by the patient and the absence of any cli...

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Autores principales: Coculescu, EC, Radu, A, Coculescu, BI
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Carol Davila University Press 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4316128/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25713611
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description Burning mouth syndrome (BMS) is defined as a chronic pain condition characterized by a burning sensation in the clinically healthy oral mucosa. It is difficult to diagnose BMS because there is a discrepancy between the severity, extensive objective pain felt by the patient and the absence of any clinical changes of the oral mucosa. This review presents some aspects of BMS, including its clinical diagnosis, classification, differential diagnosis, general treatment, evolution and prognosis.
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spelling pubmed-43161282015-02-24 Burning mouth syndrome: a review on diagnosis and treatment Coculescu, EC Radu, A Coculescu, BI J Med Life General Articles Burning mouth syndrome (BMS) is defined as a chronic pain condition characterized by a burning sensation in the clinically healthy oral mucosa. It is difficult to diagnose BMS because there is a discrepancy between the severity, extensive objective pain felt by the patient and the absence of any clinical changes of the oral mucosa. This review presents some aspects of BMS, including its clinical diagnosis, classification, differential diagnosis, general treatment, evolution and prognosis. Carol Davila University Press 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC4316128/ /pubmed/25713611 Text en ©Carol Davila University Press http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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