Study on criteria for diagnosis of glossodynia

Abstract

We established criteria for the diagnosis of glossodynia in a narrow sense, which consists of four items, and studied it in a retrospective manner. Of a total of 84 patients (11 males and 73 females), 51 patients (60.7%) fell under all of the four items.
However, 81 patients (96.4%) fell under the item concerning psychic symptoms. This suggests that patients with glossodynia in a narrow sense have a psychological element, as the base, which is common to patients with any other type of glossodynia.