Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: 10.3390/medicina57040391
Title: Vitamin B and zinc supplements and capsaicin oral rinse treatment options for burning mouth syndrome
Authors: Jankovskis, Viktors
Selga, Guntars
Department of Oral Medicine
Keywords: Burning mouth syndrome;Capsaicin;Glossodynia;Vitamin B supplements;Zinc supplements;3.2 Clinical medicine;1.1. Scientific article indexed in Web of Science and/or Scopus database;General Medicine
Issue Date: 17-Apr-2021
Citation: Jankovskis , V & Selga , G 2021 , ' Vitamin B and zinc supplements and capsaicin oral rinse treatment options for burning mouth syndrome ' , Medicina (Lithuania) , vol. 57 , no. 4 , 391 . https://doi.org/10.3390/medicina57040391
Abstract: Background and Objectives: Burning mouth syndrome (BMS) is an enigmatic, idiopathic, chronic, often painful clinical entity, where patients experience oral burning without clear clinical changes on the oral mucosa. There are yet to be well established standardized and validated definitions, diagnostic criteria or classifications for burning mouth syndrome. The aim of this study is to determine whether vitamin B complex and zinc supplements or 0.02% topical capsaicin rinse, can help alleviate BMS pain/burning levels. The objectives: (1) Gather data before and after treatment with vitamin B complex and zinc supplements (2) After the vitamin B complex and zinc protocol gather data before and after treatment with 0.02% topical capsaicin rinse (3) Data analysis and assessment for both treatment methods. Materials and Methods: 89 patients took part in the vitamin B and zinc supplement treatment regimen, out of those 20 patients took part in the capsaicin rinse treatment regimen. Before and after each treatment pain/burning levels were determined using the Visual analogue scale, salivary flow was also determined. Results: Both treatment methods showed statistically significant data in reducing pain/burning levels. There were no statistically significant changes in the salivary flow after any treatment. Conclusion: vitamin B and zinc supplement therapy and topical capsaicin rinse therapy can be an effective way to decrease pain/burning sensation levels in patients with BMS. More research should be conducted to determine the benefit of either vitamin B and zinc supplement therapy or topical capsaicin rinse therapy, so that BMS patients have treatment options, that have as few side-effects as possible.
Description: Publisher Copyright: © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
DOI: 10.3390/medicina57040391
ISSN: 1010-660X
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