Publications by authors named "H Forssell"
Objectives: To study the connections between burning mouth syndrome (BMS) and taste perception and saliva, and interactions between saliva and taste in BMS patients compared to age- and gender-matched control subjects.
Materials And Methods: A total of 31 BMS patients (43-82 years) and 20 age- and gender-matched volunteers (44-78 years) participated. The taste sensation for six tastants was measured using both the taste strips protocol and the whole-mouth evaluation method.
Background: Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of orofacial pain patients is lower than that of the general population and impaired in multiple dimensions. The aim of the present study was to investigate HRQoL of orofacial pain patients in comparison with patients suffering from other chronic pain disorders.
Materials And Methods: One hundred and fifty-one tertiary care facial pain patients (mean age, 50 years; standard deviation [SD], 15; 119 females), were compared with 312 other non-cancer chronic pain patients (mean age, 46 years; SD, 13; 204 women), recruited from three multidisciplinary pain clinics in Finland.
Article Synopsis
- A beta version of research diagnostic criteria (RDC) for burning mouth syndrome (BMS) was developed through a consensus among twelve experts using a Delphi process to establish definitions and components of the criteria.
- The agreed definition of BMS includes a daily burning sensation in the mouth lasting over 2 hours for more than 3 months, without identifiable lesions upon examination.
- The RDC consists of parts for patient self-report, clinical examination, and psychosocial assessment, with additional aspirational biomarkers for future research, aimed at improving the accuracy of BMS diagnosis in clinical studies.
Burning mouth syndrome (BMS) patients are psychologically distressed, but whether this associates with symptom severity is unclear. The aim was to investigate the association of psychological factors with pain intensity and interference in BMS. Fifty-two women (mean age 63.
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