Burning mouth syndrome
From IDWiki
- Syndrome of chronic oral pain
- Mostly affects perimenopausal or postmenopaulsa women
- Pathophysiology thought to be neuropathic
- Pain is characterized as burning of oral mucosa, and may have associated dysgeusia, paresthesia, dysesthesia, and xerostomia
- Treatments include alpha-lipoic acid (ALA) supplementation, topical clonazepam, gabapentin, combination ALA and gabapentin, Catauma, or bupivacaine[1]
- ↑ Liu YF, Kim Y, Yoo T, Han P, Inman JC. Burning mouth syndrome: a systematic review of treatments. Oral Dis. 2018 Apr;24(3):325-334. doi: 10.1111/odi.12660. Epub 2017 Mar 30. PMID: 28247977.
