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Effect of Age and Severity of Facial Palsy on Taste Thresholds in Bell's Palsy Patients
- Source :
- Journal of Audiology & Otology
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- Background and Objectives To investigate whether taste thresholds, as determined by electrogustometry (EGM) and chemical taste tests, differ by age and the severity of facial palsy in patients with Bell's palsy. Subjects and Methods This study included 29 patients diagnosed with Bell's palsy between January 2014 and May 2015 in our hospital. Patients were assorted into age groups and by severity of facial palsy, as determined by House-Brackmann Scale, and their taste thresholds were assessed by EGM and chemical taste tests. Results EGM showed that taste thresholds at four locations on the tongue and one location on the central soft palate, 1 cm from the palatine uvula, were significantly higher in Bell's palsy patients than in controls (p0.05). The severity of facial palsy did not affect taste thresholds, as determined by both EGM and chemical taste tests (p>0.05). The overall mean electrical taste thresholds on EGM were higher in younger Bell's palsy patients than in healthy subjects, with the difference at the back-right area of the tongue differing significantly (p0.05). Conclusions Electrical taste thresholds were higher in Bell's palsy patients than in controls. These differences were observed in younger, but not in older, individuals.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Taste
Electrogustometry
Audiology
Chemical taste test
03 medical and health sciences
Speech and Hearing
0302 clinical medicine
Palatine uvula
Tongue
Bell's palsy
medicine
Taste Threshold
030223 otorhinolaryngology
Palsy
Soft palate
business.industry
030206 dentistry
medicine.disease
Sensory Systems
stomatognathic diseases
medicine.anatomical_structure
Original Article
business
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Details
- ISSN :
- 23841621
- Volume :
- 21
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of audiologyotology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....65cb939dbe4795d37b8efadb6ee94cea