The International Classification of Orofacial Pain (ICOP) defines burning mouth syndrome (BMS) as "an intraoral burning or dysaesthetic sensation, recurring daily for more than 2 h/day for more than 3 months, without evident causative lesions on clinical examination and investigation" (ICOP, 2020). BMS affects 4% of the general population and 18%-33% of all postmenopausal women (Acharya
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