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Xerostomia after Radiotherapy for Oral and Oropharyngeal Cancer:Increasing Salivary Flow with Tasteless Sugar-free Chewing Gum [PDF]
, 2016 INTRODUCTION: Radiation-induced xerostomia is a frequent late side effect after treatment for oral and oropharyngeal cancers. This may induce swallowing difficulties, compromised oral well-being, reduced nutrition intake, or speech deficiencies ...
Eriksen, Jesper Grau +2 more
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Journal of Indian Academy of Oral Medicine and RadiologyBackground: This study is centered on finding the changes in the lifestyle of individuals under polypharmacy by using specific questions about the effects of hyposalivation and collection of saliva.
J Juliet Philo D Almeida +3 more
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, 2017 The oral cavity is the first component of the digestive tract, which is delimited by the lips anteriorly and the oropharynx posteriorly. The oral cavity functions as a protective barrier and is an essential component for speech and swallowing ...
Burgess, Jeff +6 more
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Dental management in transplant patients [PDF]
, 2011 Introduction: Transplant is the replacement with therapeutic purposes, of organs, tissues or cellular material for others, from a donor who is usually a human, alive or dead.
Carlos Fabuel, Laura +2 more
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Acidic oral moisturizers with pH below 6.7 may be harmful to teeth depending on formulation: a short report [PDF]
, 2017 Xerostomia affects 30% of the population and manifests as a side effect of medications, systemic diseases, or cancer therapy. Oral moisturizers are prescribed to overcome the ailments of dry mouth and its symptoms.
Delgado, Alex J, Olafsson, Vilhelm
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Dental Research Journal, 2012 Xerostomia is the medical term for the subjective complaint of dry mouth due to a lack of saliva. Xerostomia is sometimes colloquially called pasties, cottonmouth, drooth, doughmouth or des (like a desert).
Shriprasad Sarapur, H S Shilpashree
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SECRETORY CAPACITY OF PAROTID GLANDS IN PATIENTS WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS [PDF]
, 2015 The article presents data on the secretory activity of parotid glands of 51 patients, suffering from diabetes mellitus type 2, moderate severity of subcompensated and decompensated stages (29 and 22 patients, respectively).
Mytchenok, M. P.
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Clinical and Experimental Dental ResearchObjectives Anticholinergics cause dry mouth and are highly relevant for dentists, but little is known about the relationships between intake and the occurrence of subjective and objective dry mouth with age. The German anticholinergic burden score (GACB)
Christoph Matthias Schoppmeier +3 more
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Characterizing Restorative Dental Treatments of Sjögren's Syndrome Patients Using Electronic Dental Records Data [PDF]
, 2017 Scant knowledge exists on the type of restorative treatments Sjögren's syndrome patients (SSP) receive in spite of their high dental disease burden due to hyposalivation.
Makkad, Payal +3 more
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