• Journal of Oral Medicine and Pain
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• v.34 no.4
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• pp.341-351
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• 2009

There is tremendous variability in the ways patients present with taste problems. Because of complex and multifactorial etiological background, it is not simple to evaluate patients with taste disorders. Accurate assessment of patients' status by prudent, thorough history taking and symptom analysis is the most essential for exact diagnosis of taste disorders. The aim of this study was to investigate the clinical characteristics of patients with taste problems as a primary complaint. Consecutive series of 50 patients (12 males and 38 females, mean age $53.6\;{\pm}\;14.7$ years) were included for the present study. All subjects were requested to complete a comprehensive questionnaire. Clinical evaluation procedures included oral examination, interview, questionnaire analysis, panoramic radiography, blood test and measurement of salivary flow rate. The obtained results were as follows: 1. Among the patients, 36 patients (72%) complained of oral mucosal pain or burning sensation. Of these patients, 18 patients (36%) were diagnosed as burning mouth syndrome. 2. Nineteen patients (38%) complained of subjective oral dryness. The flow rate of unstimulated whole saliva was less than 0.1 mL/min in 14 patients (28%) and 17 (34%) had a stimulated whole salivary flow rate of less than 0.5 mL/min. 3. Among the types of taste disorders, hypogeusia, the most frequently reported, was found in 25 patients (50%), dysgeusia in 18 patients (36%), phantogeusia in 15 patients (30%), hypergeusia in 10 patients (20%), and ageusia in 5 patients (10%). Nineteen patients (38%) reported more than one type of taste disorder and the most frequent combination was dysgeusia + hypogeusia (n=6, 12%). 4. Based on data from the medical and dental histories and examinations, the patients were assigned to 12 probable causal categories. Taste disorders due to oral mucosal diseases and idiopathic taste disorder were the most frequent (n=9; 18%, each), followed by psychogenic taste disorder (n=8; 16%), drug-induced taste disorder (n=7; 14%), and taste disorder due to dry mouth (n=6; 12%). These 5 categories of taste disorder accounted for 78% of all cases in this study.

• Journal of Oral Medicine and Pain
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• v.35 no.4
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• pp.259-264
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• 2010

The majority of chronic gingival ulcerative lesions are known to be due to autoimmune disease such as oral lichen planus, benign mucous membrane pemphigoid or pemphigus vulgaris. Topical or systemic corticosteroids are mainly used and adjuvant drugs like immunosuppressant, anti-inflammatory drugs, antimalarials or antimetabolites can also be prescribed. Because systemic corticosteroids causes various side effects, such as gastrointestinal disturbance, osteoporosis, diabetes or adrenal suppression. So, topical steroid therapy is main treatment for chronic gingival ulcerative lesion confined to small area. However, there's also limitation of topical corticosteroids. The effect of the corticosteroids decreases due to salivary flow and the movement of the tongue, lips, or buccal mucosa. When the lesions are widely distributed or positioned deeply in oral cavity, it is hard to apply the medication on patients' own. Moreover, it can be applied to unaffected mucosa. Although occlusive steroid therapy using stent was reported to minimize taking steroid and overcome the faults of applying topical steroids, it has been used less frequently in the clinical field. Therefore, this report is going to find out the usefulness and the way to utilize clinically through the case which acted satisfactorily by performing topical steroid therapy using stent on chronic ulcerative gingival lesions.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• v.35 no.6
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• pp.495-499
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• 2002

Plummer-Vinson syndrome(Paterson-Kelly syndrome) is characterized by dysphagia due to upper esophageal or hypopharyngeal web, iron deficiency anemia, and atropic oral and glossal mucosa. This syndrome is usually known as precancerous lesion that develops into postcricoid carcinoma. Universally, the clinical manifestations of this syndrome were markedly improved after oral iron replacement therapy or endoscopic balloon or electrocautery treatment. 63 year-old woman was received a short segment, free jejunal transfer to be released from esophageal stricture. After the operation, the stenotic lesion proved to be Plummer-vinson syndrome with carcinoma in situ by pathologic study.

• Journal of Oral Medicine and Pain
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• v.35 no.1
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• pp.41-47
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• 2010

Burning mouth syndrome(BMS) is a chronic oral pain and a symptom complex disorder usually unaccomplished by mucosal lesion or other clinical and laboratory signs of organic disease. BMS is characterized by a spontaneous burning sensation that mainly affects middle-aged and postmenopausal women. The etiology of BMS is poorly understood even though evidence for a possible neuropathic pathogenesis. BMS cause from various local or systemic factor, including nutritional deficiencies, hormonal change, local infection, dental procedure, dry mouth, medication and systemic disease including diabetes mellitus. Many studies suggest peripheral alteration in sensory of trigeminal nerve system. BMS patients with supertaster indicates pathologies of central and peripheral nerve system induced by an alteration in the taste system at the level of chorda tympani and glossopharyngeal nerve. The author discuss our current understanding of etiology and pathogenesis of BMS that refered chronic oral pain.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07c
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• pp.2883-2886
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• 2003

좋은 발성을 위하여 음성이 만들어지려면, 뇌의 언어중추의 명령에 의하여 신경망을 통하여 ‘호흡기관(폐와 흉곽. 호흡관련 근육들)’과 ‘발성기관(주로 후두 즉 성대)’ 그리고 ‘조음, 공명기관(인두, 구강 및 비강)’의 근육들이 유기적으로 작용하여야 한다. 이런 협력 체제에 문제가 생기면, 다양한 종류의 질환이 유발될 수 있다[1,2]. 현재 임상에서 음성 분석을 위해 사용되는 시스템은 대부분 성대의 진동을 측정하기 위해 stroboscopy, 전기성문파형검법 (EGG, electroglottography), 후두근전도 중의 한 방법과 음성 분석을 위한 분석 프로그램으로 구성되어 있다. 그러나, 발성은 호흡과 매우 밀접한 관계가 있어 음성, 성대의 진동, 호흡 관계를 종합적으로 관찰할 필요가 있다. 본 연구에서는 발성 시 성대 점막의 접촉 양상은 ECG 로 측정하며, 발성의 주 에너지원이 되는 호흡의 변화를 2 channel 인덕턴스 호흡감시 장치(RIP: repiratory inductive plethymography)를 이용하여 흉곽의 움직임과 상 복강의 움직임에 대하여 측정하며, 발성되는 음성은 마이크로폰을 통하여 측정하는 ‘EGG, 음성, 호흡 통합검사 장치’를 개발하였다.

• The Journal of the Korean dental association
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• v.56 no.7
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• pp.391-397
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• 2018

Mess removal, electrocoagulation, cryosurgery are conventional methods in the treatment of various oral mucosal diseases. However, there are several problems or complication during or after surgery using conventional tools. Recently, LASER gradually become useful tool in the surgery of oral mucosal diseases. Of the LASER, carbon dioxide-mediated LASER is widely used one. Carbon dioxide LASER has many advantages such as good bleeding control, decreased damage to adjacent tissue, decreased pain and swelling, reduced scar formation, even bacteriocidal effects. In this reports, the author describe pros and cons of LASER, especially focused on carbon dioxide, and shed light on the field of LASER application in treatment of various oral mucosal diseases.

• The Journal of the Korean dental association
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• v.55 no.7
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• pp.468-480
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• 2017

A wide variety of benign and malignant lesions and other diseases can develop on oral mucosa. Oral mucosal lesions can also be associated with an underlying systemic disease, so their correct diagnosis, which may even share similar clinical and demographic features, is always a challenge for a dentist. Common oral mucosal lesions include candidiasis, herpes viral infection, leukoplakia, recurrent aphthous stomatitis, pemphigus, lichen planus and benign migratory glossitis. The differential diagnosis of these lesions are based on a thorough review of the patient's past medical and dental history and a complete oral examination. The knowledge of clinical features such as size, location, morphology, color, and pain is helpful in establishing a diagnosis. In addition, diagnostic tests, including microbiologic and laboratory tests and biopsies are usually required for establishing a proper diagnosis.

• Proceedings of the KOR-BRONCHOESO Conference
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• 1978.06a
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• pp.6.2-6
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• 1978

Granular cell myoblastoma is a rare muscular origined benign tumor which was first decribed on the vocal cord by Abrikossoff in 1931. Although this lesion is found frequently in the tongue, it has been known to occur in other parts of the oral cavity as well as in the larynx and trachea. It is of considerble clinical importance that this lesion is frequently accompanied by pseundoe-pitheliomatous hyperplasia of the overling mucosa which may easily be confused with carcinoma. We experienced a case of granular cell myoblastoma and report with the consideration of literatures concerning the same disease.

• Journal of Oral Medicine and Pain
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• v.35 no.4
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• pp.245-258
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• 2010

Smoking has been identified not as a major risk factor for circulatory and respiratory diseases but also as causes of various oral diseases. A number of clinical studies and regional health surveys have found an association between smoking and poor oral health status and between smoking and prognosis of dental treatments. However, there is few studies about status of smoking cessation treatment and policies in dentistry in Korea. The purpose of this study was to investigate the smoking patterns of outpatients and outcomes of short-term smoking cessation treatment in dental hospitals in Korea and, subsequently, to seek further smoking cessation services in dentistry. This study was sponsored by Korean Dental Association (KDA) and department of culture and welfare. 825 dental patients were voluntarily participated in a 4-week smoking cessation program with nicotine patch and 297 participants of them completed on smoking-related questionnaires. All participants were recruited from outpatients of 11 dental university hospitals (primarily in the department of oral medicine, oral surgery and periodontology) in Korea during 3-month period from October 2009 to January 2010. The Questionnaires included demographics, duration of smoking, heavy smoking index (HSI), number of thinking of quit smoking, duration of stop smoking and reasons to smoking, awareness of smoking effects on oral health, and their success rate after 4 weeks of nicotine patch program was investigated. The statistical analysis was carried by SPSS version 18.0 program and Chi-square test. According to the results of this study, male in their 30s to 50s were the most prevalent of all the participants and duration of smoking increased with age. Attempt rate to quit smoking (Quit smoking) was the highest in 30s and 40s with duration of quit smoking ranging 1 to 3 months. Emotional stresswas the most frequently reported reason for smoking, followed by habit and pleasure in order. All age group showed high HIS over 71% and awareness of smoking effects on oral diseases such as oral soft tissue diseases, periodontal diseases and dental caries was found relatively high (50~60%) Periodontal implant was the main reason for participation in the smoking cessation services in dental clinics and the success rate of, 4-week nicotine patch program of all the participants was 29.4%, extremely low compared to that of medical clinics. Systemic education for dentists to be able to provide interventions to quit smoking including counseling with the 5As'and development of available measures for smokers is needed as considered that the low success rate of the smoking cessation services in dentistry could be explained mainly by lack of dentists' strategies, experience and attention. Awareness and attention of dentists should be emphasized and their participation be encouraged by long-term, multidisciplinary policies such as establishment of insurance fee, which would made a considerable progress in preventing smoking-related oral diseases and promoting public oral health.

• Korean Journal of Head & Neck Oncology
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.15-19
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• 2014

비인두암에서 시행되는 방사선 치료 이후에 구강건조증과 피부 변화는 흔하게 볼 수 있는 합병증 중 하나이다. 비인두암의 좋은 예후를 고려할 때, 그러한 치료와 관련된 독성들은 상대적으로 오랫동안 문제를 야기하며 삶의 질 저하를 불러온다. 특히 류마티스 관절염, 루푸스와 같은 결합조직 질환을 가진 환자들에게서 방사선 치료를 시행하였을 때, 빈번하게 심각한 독성이 관찰된다. 본 증례는 성인형 스틸씨 병에서 병발된 비인두암의 치료로 항암방사선 동시치료를 실시한 결과, 비교적 경미한 구강 건조, 점막염, 불면증 등의 합병증이 관찰되었으나, 완전 관해가 획득되었다. 이에 저자들은 과거에 보고된 적 없는 성인형 스틸씨 병에 병발한 비인두암의 치료 경험을 다른 결합조직질환들에서 방사선 치료의 문헌들과 함께 보고하는 바이다.