Burning Mouth SyndromeJust four sentences to show what a load of bollocks the idealistic "psychosomatic" model of diseases is – and that nothing in biology makes senses except in the view that we live in a materialistic world, not an idealistic world (to paraphrase Dobzhansky's remark about the "light of evolution").
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Psychologic Dysfunction
Personality and mood changes (especially anxiety and depression) have been consistently demonstrated in patients with burning mouth syndrome and have been used to suggest that the disorder is a psychogenic problem.
However, psychologic dysfunction is common in patients with chronic pain and may be the result of the pain rather than its cause.
The reported success of biobehavioral techniques in the treatment of burning mouth syndrome may be related more to an improvement in pain-coping strategies than to a “cure” of the disorder.
Similarly, the usefulness of tricyclic antidepressants and some benzodiazepines may be more closely related to their analgesic and anticonvulsant properties, and to the possible effect of benzodiazepines on taste-pain pathways.
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