Oral Dysaesthetic and Perceptual Disorder, A Distinct Subset of Chronic Orofacial Pain Without Burning Symptoms: A Case-Control Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

According to the ICOP 2020, Burning Mouth Syndrome (BMS) is a chronic orofacial pain disorder characterised by an intraoral burning sensation, which represents the main diagnostic criterion. However, some patients experience other symptoms such as xerostomia, taste alterations, and globus, without the burning sensation (non-BMS).

Objective

This study aims to explore non-BMS as a distinct subclinical entity by comparing the classical BMS with this new group of patients in a case-control study, addressing gaps in current diagnostic criteria.

Methods

Eighty-three non-BMS patients were compared with an equal number of BMS patients matched for age and sex. Data on sociodemographic and risk factors, systemic comorbidities and drug intake, symptom patterns, psycho

SUBMITTER: Musella G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12037929 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature