Photobiomodulation alleviates Burning Mouth Syndrome pain: Immediate and weekly outcomes explored.
Oral Dis
; 30(7): 4668-4676, 2024 10.
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ABSTRACT
Burning Mouth Syndrome (BMS) is an intraoral chronic burning or dysesthetic sensation, without clinically evident causative lesions on clinical examination and investigation. AIM:
To assess immediate and weekly effects of photobiomodulation (PBM) on BMS patients.METHODS:
Thirty BMS patients were treated intra-orally with photobiomodulation 940(±10) nm (InGaAsP) 3 W, semi-conductor diode, weekly, for up to 10 weeks. Pain intensity, measured using the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS), and characteristics were recorded immidiately after each treatment, along with a weekly average VAS.RESULTS:
Immediate mean VAS score decreased from a starting score of 7.80 ± 1.83 to 2.07 ± 2.55 (p < 0.001). The mean weekly VAS score for the week after the final treatment session was higher (5.73 ± 2.80, p < 0.001) than the immediate response, but still significantly lower than the starting score (p = 0.017). We observed a trend of pain improvement with more treatments, but this was only statistically significant up to the third treatment. Male gender and unilateral pain correlated with better PBM efficacy (p = 0.017, 0.022, respectively).CONCLUSION:
PBM provides significant immediate pain relief for BMS patients after each treatment; however, the efficacy decreases notably over the following week. A trend of increasing pain relief across treatments was observed, statistically significant up to the third treatment.Palavras-chave
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Assunto principal:
Medição da Dor
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Síndrome da Ardência Bucal
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Terapia com Luz de Baixa Intensidade
Limite:
Adult
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Aged
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Aged80
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Oral Dis
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Oral dis
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Oral diseases
Ano de publicação:
2024
Tipo de documento:
Article