0000000000109494
AUTHOR
M.e. Rodríguez De Rivera Campillo
Evaluation of the response to treatment and clinical evolution in patients with burning mouth syndrome
Objective: the aim of this study is to investigate the clinical evolution, the spontaneous remission of the symptomatology and the response to different treatments in a group of burning mouth syndrome patients. Study Design: the sample was formed by a group of patients that were visited in the Unit of Oral Medicine of the Dentistry Clinic of the University of Barcelona, from the year 2000 to 2011. After revising the clinical records of all the patients that had been under control for a period of time of 18 months or longer, they were contacted by telephone. In the telephone interview, they were questioned about the symptomatology evolution and the response to the treatments received, noting…
Esclerosis tuberosa y manifestaciones orales: caso clínico
La esclerosis tuberosa (ET) es una anomalía congénita del desarrollo embrionario que se transmite de forma autosómica dominante y tiene diferentes formas de expresión clínica. Se clasifica dentro de las denominadas facomatosis (phakos 'mancha' y oma 'tumor'), que son anomalías del desarrollo, susceptibles de originar tumores y/o hamartomas del sistema nervioso. Es importante destacar que las lesiones del sistema nervioso se acompañan, prácticamente siempre, de anomalías cutáneas. En este trabajo presentamos el caso de una paciente de 55 años de edad, diagnosticada desde hace años de esclerosis tuberosa, que cursa con lesiones intraorales compatibles clínicamente con fibromas. Estas lesiones…