Correlation between Burning Mouth Syndrome and Anxiety in the Elderly Inmates of Sanitaria in Tehran

• Main Authors: Sedighe Bakhtiari (Author), Hamid Reza Khalighi (Author), Somayyeh Azimi (Author), Kaveh Alavi (Author), Hasan Ayoobi Valoogerdi (Author), Zahra Namazi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background and aims. Burning mouth syndrome (BMS) is a chronic pain disorder characterized by a chief complaint of oral burning/pain with no clinically observable oral mucosal lesions. The prevalence of BMS has been reported to be 2.5- 5.1% in the general population and several psychological disorde...