Thermal quantitative sensory testing in burning mouth syndrome
| Autor: | N. Schwarzbach, H. Hörning, Anne Wolowski |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Quantitative sensory testing 030206 dentistry Burning mouth syndrome 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine medicine.anatomical_structure Nociception Tongue Tip of the tongue 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Anesthesia Peripheral nervous system Threshold of pain medicine medicine.symptom business General Dentistry Free nerve ending |
| Zdroj: | Clinical Oral Investigations. 25:3059-3066 |
| ISSN: | 1436-3771 1432-6981 |
| Popis: | Subjects with burning mouth syndrome (BMS) have altered sensitivity and pain thresholds for thermal stimuli compared to a control group. Fourteen women and 6 men (average age = 62.60 years, median = 63.50) with BMS and a control group were tested using the method of thermal quantitative sensory testing (tQST) (tip, right, and left lateral border of the tongue, left thumb) to determine their heat/cold detection threshold (WDT/CDT) and heat/cold pain threshold (HPT/CPT). Only the CPT values at the tip and both lateral border of the tongue show a statistically significant difference: tip of the tongue: sick = 12.0 ± 5.5 °C, median 14.2°C; healthy = 4.5 ± 2.9 °C; median = 6.4 °C; p = 0.000; right lateral border: sick = 8.55 ± 3.34 °C; healthy = 4.46 ± 1.90 °C; median 5.8 °C; p < 0.001; left lateral border: sick = 10.18 ± 3.94 °C¸ healthy = 4.15 ± 2.18 °C; median = 6.0 °C; p < 0.001. BMS may be a combination of a dysfunction of free nociceptive nerve endings in the peripheral nervous system and impaired pain processing in the central nervous system. This preliminary study provides hints to other causes of BMS. This offers the possibility of further therapeutic options. |
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