" Xerostomia : "

Farzaneh AghaHosseini1,2,3, Maryam Tahmasebinasab4, Mehdi Vatanpour5

  • 1Dental Research Center, Dentistry Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

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概括

口腔平坦 (OLP) 和口腔干燥 (xerostomia) 经常同时发生,研究表明OLP患者的唾液流量减少. 然而,OLP和口腔干燥之间的直接因果关系仍然未被证明.

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