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M S Bhatia1, Navneet Kaur Bhatia2, Navleen Kaur Bhatia3
1Professor and Head, Department of Psychiatry, University College of Medical Sciences , Dilshad Garden, Delhi, India .
Abstract:
Oral paresthesias are common in clinical practice but they often go unnoticed and untreated. Psychogenic oral paresthesia is an unpleasant sensation of tingling or pricking or a feeling of swelling or burning, with spontaneous onset.It can result due to local, systemic, psychogenic or idiopathic causes. Among psychogenic causes; anxiety disorder and depression are common. We describe a 32-year-old patient presented with lingual paresthesia and features suggestive of depression. He responded to an antidepressant, fluoxetine 40 mg /day.
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