Crespo EBM, de la Rosa SH, García RO, Crespo RLR, Echevarría MRG, Herrera MY

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ABSTRACT

Introduction: burning mouth syndrome is characterized by the presence of chronic symptoms of burning and painful sensation in an oral cavity demonstrating clinically normal mucosa.
Objective: to identify presence of associated factors with burning mouth syndrome.
Methods: an analytical case-control study was carried out at “Victoria de Santa Clara" Teaching Clinic from May, 2010 to April, 2014. Two groups were integrated: study group formed by 23 patients who suffered from this affection, and control one formed by 46 patients who did not have the syndrome. Several variables were studied such as age, gender, subjective xerostomia, presence or absence of burning symptoms, intensity of symptoms and their location, time and onset form, presence of dysgeusia, cancer phobia, nocturnal water intake, foreign body sensation, salivary flow rate at rest and during stimulation, consumption of xerogenic drugs, as well as, anxiety and depression. All data were processed by means of statistical analysis software, version 15.5 for Windows.
Results: women, as well as, continuous and unbearable burning sensation in the tongue during the day predominated. Subjective xerostomia, dysgeusia, cancer phobia, foreign body sensation, nocturnal water intake and nocturia characterized the study group.
Conclusions: the most associated factors with the syndrome were anxiety and depression. This was not the case with salivary flow and xerogenic drugs.