口腔内の疼痛の改善に伴い唾液中ストレスマーカーが低下した Burning mouth syndrome の3例

Burning mouth syndrome

北海道歯学会

北海道歯学雑誌

Burning mouth syndrome is defined by the International Classification of Oral and Facial Pain, 1st edition, as pain or dysesthesia occurring daily for ≥2 hours over a period of ≥3 months, with no identifiable cause on clinical examination. Burning mouth syndrome is thought to have multifac torial origins, and stress has been proposed as a contributing factor. In this study, we focused on the stress-related biomarkers cortisol and α-amylase. We report three cases in which the numeric rating scale score, pain scale score, salivary cortisol concentration, and α-amylase concentration were measured at treatment initiation and again a t a follow-up visit 1 month later.