Abstract
Team approach for the patients with dry mouth has been done by Oral and Maxillo-Facial Surgery and Preventive Dentistry at Kyushu Dental College. We reported the contents of team approach and the result of clinical and statistical examination about the patients with dry mouth. The subjects were 101 patients with dry mouth, consisting of 22 males and 79 females, an average age of 67 years. In the department of Preventive Dentistry, the subjective symptom questionnaire, the examination of salivary flow rate and moisture of mucosa, and the oral care, etc. were done. In the department of Oral and Maxillo-Facial Surgery, the examination for the Sjögren's syndrome and the candidosis were done.
Tingling pain of the tongue was seen frequently as a subjective symptom besides oral dryness. Salivary flow rate under resting and stimulating was both normal in 8 cases. The moisture of mucosa showed 2mm or less in 42.6% of all cases by moist degree inspection paper and 27 or less in 69.3% by moisture meter. Hypertension and gastrointestinal disorder are seen frequently in systemic diseases, and the patients who had the medicine using regularly accounted for 79% in all cases. Candida species were detected in 52.2% of 90 cases.
