Abstract
Because of lack of the long-term follow up study for the patients with glossodynia, we do not have enough evidence to decide the time of treatment termination as well as the appropriate follow up period. 177 patients with glossodynia at the Department of Oral Surgery, Nagoya University School of Medicine, during the 5-year period between 1988 and 1992, were asked to answer a questionnaire by telephone. Except for twenty-nine of them who had died or who could not be contacted because of moving. 148 patients answered the questionnaire.
We investigated the long-term follow up after the treatment with reference to the results of the treatment, sexuality and the age at the treatment. Ten percent of the patients, who had no symptoms by the end of the treatment, did not complain of glossodynia at the time of the interview.
Sixty-eight percent of the patients reported alleviated symptoms after the treatment, and seventy one percent of them were free from the previous symptoms. twenty percent of the patients still had their symptoms after the treatment, but 29% of them were alleviated and 29% were free from the symptoms. The male group had berrer results than the female group.In the female glossldynia pafients group over 55-years, the present symptoms are more severe than those of the under 54 year old group.During the long-term follow up of patients with glossldynia, most of them were now free or alleviated from the previous symptoms.
