Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Oral Dis. 2011 Jan;17(1):2-6. doi: 10.1111/j.1601-0825.2010.01719.x. Epub 2010 Aug 27.
Dental practitioners are often the first clinicians to be presented with complaints about changes in taste. This raises a problem in terms of appropriate evaluative response. It is a difficult issue both because of the common confusion between smell and taste problems (with smell being the more vulnerable sense and contributing substantially to the flavor of food that most patients equate with 'taste'), and because of the lack of widely accepted standardized techniques to assess true taste function. This brief review provides a summary of some of the problems associated with assessing taste function in a clinical setting and of patient management options available to the practitioner of oral medicine.
牙医通常是最先接触到患者抱怨味觉变化的临床医生。这就提出了一个适当评估反应的问题。这是一个难题，既因为嗅觉和味觉问题之间经常混淆（嗅觉是更脆弱的感觉，对大多数患者等同于“味觉”的食物味道有很大贡献），也因为缺乏广泛接受的标准化技术来评估真正的味觉功能。这篇简要的综述提供了一些与在临床环境中评估味觉功能相关的问题的总结，并介绍了口腔医学从业者可用于患者管理的选择。
