NCT00862576

A Study of the Association of Sleep Dysfunction and Burning Mouth Syndrome

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 55 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of California, San Francisco · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This is a case control study of the association between burning mouth syndrome and sleep dysfunction. Cases will comprise of patients diagnosed with burning mouth syndrome at the UCSF oral medicine clinic. Controls will include patients with leukoplakia, pigmented lesions, traumatic lesions, benign tumors, mucoceles, and pemphigoid matched on age (5 years) and gender to the cases. New patients as well as those presenting for follow-up visits will be eligible. Each case and control subject will be administered the following 4 questionnaires by interview: (1) enrollment questionnaire (2) Sleep scale from the medical outcomes study (MOS), (3) current sleep status scale and (4) a numerical rating scale for measurement of oral symptoms. Cases (BMS patients) will be followed in the clinic or by telephone contact once per month for the following 6 months and questionnaires 1 (question 6 only), 2, 3 and 4 will be administered by interview.

Conditions

• Burning Mouth Syndrome

Timeline

• Start date: 2006-06-01
• Primary completion: 2008-06-01
• Completion: 2008-06-01
• First posted: 2009-03-17
• Last updated: 2009-03-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States