A Morito, K Fujisawa, T Eguchi… - Supportive Care in Cancer, 2011 - Springer ... the lips, tongue, cheek, and jaw; and to help articulation, conversation, swallowing, mastication, and taste perception [1, 2]. The mucous is produced from saliva, and a decrease in the amount of saliva disturbs these effects and results in a reduced quality of life (QOL). Drymouth... Related articles - All 2 versions
M Manfredi, U Scoditti, M Angelini… - Oral Surgery, Oral …, 2011 - Elsevier ... Interestingly, acute hyposalivation and drymouth are often included in the early clinical features of botulism. ... At clinical examination the oral mucosa appeared extremely dry, sticky, and inflamed. ... The lips were dry and cracked, and signs of angular cheilitis were also present. ... Related articles - All 3 versions
WM Thomson, GJ van der Putten, C de Baat… - Oral Surgery, Oral …, 2011 - Elsevier ... In the SXI-D, only 5 of those items (my mouth feels dry when eating a meal; my mouth feels dry; I have difficulty in eating dry foods; I have difficulties swallowing certain foods; my lips feel dry) are used, with the respondent asked to choose 1 of 3 response options (“Never ... Related articles - All 3 versions
A Villa… - Australian Dental Journal, 2011 - Wiley Online Library ...Drymouth sensation was associated with a significant increase in the odds of having drylips, dry throat, dry eyes, dry skin and dry nose (Table 3). Compared to patients without xerostomia, patients with xerostomia were three times more likely to drink water to swallow food (OR ...
P Dutta, D Sur… - Epidemiological and Molecular Aspects …, 2011 - Springer ... Patient with 'some' dehydration usually presents with thirst, irritability, sunken eyes, drymouth, lips and tongue and sign of loss of skin elastic- ity (pinched abdominal skin retracts back slowly). ... Patient also has very sunken eye, very drymouth, lips, and tongue. ... Related articles - All 2 versions