Taste evaluation in adolescents and pediatric patients with benign migratory glossitis

Perception of taste in HIV‐positive individuals in treatment antiretroviral: results of a case‐control study

“…However, the sour taste was identified by both groups. This difficulty in the perception of bitter taste was also reported in other studies involving patients infected with HIV, individuals with benign migratory glossitis and crack users …”

“…The main advantages of this method include: (a) to obtain reliable data on clinical, (b) to be a rapid test (the evaluation does not take more than ten minutes), (c) to have a long life, (d) to be easily portable, and (e) to allow testing each side of the tongue separately . Several studies were conducted to investigate the taste perception in various clinical situations since the development of this technique …”

Relationship between taste perception and use of upper complete dentures

“…There are lots of factors that may be associated with change in taste perception, such as age, alcohol consumption, presence of dentures, smoking, medications, illegal drugs, systemic and neurological disorders, and also HIV infection 7–11 . The literature has several studies involving the assessment of gustatory perception regarding some surgical procedures (tonsillectomy and ear surgery), medications, smoking, viral infections, crack use, and benign migratory glossitis 8,11–17 . Removable complete dentures are produced with a palate coverage.…”