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Characteristics of medication-induced xerostomia and effect of treatment
PLoS ONE, 2023 Objective Side-effects of medications cause xerostomia. There have been cases where a medication has been discontinued owing to its severe side-effects.
Kayoko Ito +6 more
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Discordance between hyposalivation and xerostomia among community-dwelling older adults in Japan.
PLoS ONE, 2023 Individuals with an objective decrease in salivary flow (objective dry mouth) may not be aware of subjective dry mouth (xerostomia). However, no clear evidence exists to explain the discordance between subjective and objective dry mouth.
Ichizo Morita +10 more
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Prevalence, predictors and severity of xerostomia in adult patients in general dental care [PDF]
Frontiers in Oral HealthObjectivesWhile xerostomia (subjective dry mouth) is frequently studied in elderly populations, this study focuses on adults aged 18–82 years to explore prevalence across a broader age spectrum, including younger adults who may experience xerostomia due ...
Anna Adolfsson +9 more
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A brief xerostomia inventory for young adults. [PDF]
PLoS ONEObjectiveXerostomia (dry mouth) is a common condition that negatively impacts life quality for adults of all ages. Yet, xerostomia has primarily been studied among older adults and populations at high risk of dry mouth, with no widely-available self ...
Benjamin W Chaffee +5 more
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Prevalence of xerostomia and its impacts on oral health in type 2 diabetic patients at a Nigerian tertiary hospital: a cross-sectional study [PDF]
Saudi Dental JournalDiabetes mellitus is globally prevalent and associated with significant health and socioeconomic burden. Xerostomia (Dry Mouth) occurs in about four-fifths of type 2 diabetic patients.
Oluwadolapo Gbemi Adekanmbi +3 more
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Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2022 Background and AimsOral xerostomia remains one of the most common complications of differentiated thyroid carcinoma patients (DTC) after radioiodine therapy (RAI). Environmental factors in the etiology of xerostomia are largely unknown.
Baiqiang Lin +22 more
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Artificial Saliva: Challenges and Future Perspectives for the Treatment of Xerostomia
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2019 The chronic sensation of a dry mouth is a disease condition called xerostomia and affects a large part of the population. Xerostomia is associated with decreased secretion, or more often, qualitative changes in saliva proteins and immunoglobulin ...
Robert Bucki +2 more
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EBioMedicine, 2016 Background: Xerostomia is a chief complaint of patients with Sjögren's syndrome (SS). However, newer proposals for SS classification remove xerostomia and hyposalivation from the criteria list.
Ilias Alevizos, Alan Baer, Bruce A Dye
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Jurnal Kedokteran Meditek, 2014 Xerostomia is the subjective feeling of oral dryness. The major causes are Sjögren's syndrome (SS), medication and radiotherapy to the head and neck. SS is a chronic systemic autoimmune disease characterized by infiltration of the exocrine glands, the salivary and lacrimal ones in particular.
Delli, K. +4 more
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Dry Eye Disease Patients with Xerostomia Report Higher Symptom Load and Have Poorer Meibum Expressibility. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 The purpose of the study was to investigate if xerostomia (dry mouth) is associated with symptoms and signs of dry eye disease (DED). At the Norwegian Dry Eye Clinic, patients with symptomatic DED with different etiologies were consecutively included in ...
Ida G Fostad +6 more
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