Taste and Pain Response in Burning Mouth Syndrome With and Without Geographic Tongue.

CONCLUSION: BMS and BMS/GT present with similar clinical pain phenotype and demographics; however, taste was more intact in BMS/GT, suggesting that GT may be a contributing factor in the development of BMS through a mechanism that does not involve taste.
PMID: 32870950 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Journal of Orofacial Pain - September 2, 2020 Category: ENT & OMF Tags: J Oral Facial Pain Headache Source Type: research