Síndrome de boca ardientepuesta al día

Abstract

A literature review on Burning Mauth Syndrome (BMS) has been performed in order to know the most relevant aspects regarding etiological factors and the treatments avalaible nowadays. Among etioiogical factors can be considered local factors as infections, allergy or qualitative and cuantitative salivary alterations; sistemic factors as menopause, diabetes mellitus or nutritional deficits; and psychological factors as depression, anxiety or cancerophobia. Moreover recent investigations hint a fourth factor, neurosensorial alterations that suggest a neuropathic background in the etiology of this syndrome. Among treatments employed to date, besides the control of involved factors, new drugs are being used, as capsaicin (an extract of peppers of Capsaicum gender) that can cause a deplection of P substance, and alpha-lopoic acid (ALA) a potent antioxidant agent that participates in Krebs' cycle as a coenzyme. Of these therapies, ALA seems to obtain better results, and also less adverse reactions.