BURNING MOUTH SYNDROME: EVALUATION OF CLINICAL AND LABORATORY FINDINGS
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2016-07-30Author
HALAC, GulistanTekturk, Pinar
EROGLU, Saliha
CIKRIKCIOGLU, Mehmet Ali
CIMENDUR, Ozlem
KILIC, Elif
Asil, TALİP
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Background and purpose Burning mouth syndrome is a chronic and persistent painful condition characterized by burning sensation in the oral mucosa. We investigated the etiological factors of patients presented with the history of burning in the mouth who admitted our outpatient clinics over the 8-years period and who had no underlying identifiable local factors. We also tried to determine their demographic and clinical characteristics. Our aim was to investigate the association between burning mouth and psychiatric disorders such as depression and anxiety, chronic diseases like diabetes mellitus (DM) and other laboratory studies in patients complaining of solely burning in the mouth.