Journal of Dental Medicine

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE AR-SA Burning mouth syndrome is a painful oral disease without specific clinical symptoms. Explanation and definition of the disease depend on many factors and is characteristics to each patient.  3 types of this syndrome have been defined. Almost all oral disease specialists believe that burning mouth syndrome is multifactorial and have not mentioned any specific risk factor for it. Currently, etiologic factors are divided into 3 groups of local, systemic and psychological factors.

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE AR-SA In recent years, Medical science has been developed remarkably in treatment of malignant diseases. New treatment modalities, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and immunotherapy in patients with different types of neoplasm have cured some cases and increased their life long. On the other hand, considerable complications have also been developed for both patients and clinicians. Viral infections of oral cavity in patients receiving chemotherapy is ignored in most cases. Therefore, we aimed to evaluate viral infections in hospitalized patients receiving chemotherapy in Hematology department of Amiralam and Imam Khomeini Hospitals. On this account 84 patients with leukemia (AML,ALL, CML, CLL) and lymphoma ( hochkin and non hochkin) who were in immunosuppression phase after chemotherapy were evaluated in 3 months. Lower incidence of viral infections in comparison to the results of other countries were obtained.