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Abstract: It has been reported that the number of people who feel depressed or stressed is increasing due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. We report a case in which taste disorders began to be felt from the time when the patient’s work was drastically reduced and he had to stay at home.
The patient, a male in his 60s, was a sightseeing bus driver. The chief complaint was abnormal taste. His work was drastically reduced due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and after he had to wait at home all day, tongue pain, discomfort in the mouth, and abnormal taste appeared. At our department, we advised him to have confidence in his oral health because the results of taste function tests tended to improve at each visit. In addition, when ethyl loflazepate was prescribed, it showed a remarkable effect: the tongue pain and discomfort in the mouth disappeared, and after 5 months, he became unaware of the taste abnormality with his usual diet.
This case is considered to be a concrete example of the development of dental psychosomatic disorders such as dysgeusia due to the spread of COVID-19.
