Kannan Sathya, Chandrasekaran Balamanikandasrinivasan, Muthusamy Senthilkumar, Sidhu Preena, Suresh Nanditha
Academic Unit of Craniofacial Clinical Care, Faculty of Dentistry, AIMST University, Kedah, Malaysia.
Gerodontology. 2014 Jun;31(2):149-52. doi: 10.1111/ger.12010.
Burns of the oral mucosa may be caused by thermal, mechanical, chemical, electrical or radiation injury. Clinically, these burns can produce localised or diffuse areas of tissue damage depending on the severity and extent of the insult. Most oral thermal burns produce erosions or ulcers on the palate or tongue.
A case of palatal burn in a 66-year-old diabetic patient caused by drinking hot cereal is presented. The role of diabetes in causing oral mucosal dysesthesia that predisposed the occurrence of this burn is also discussed.
Insensate palatal burn as a rare complication of diabetes mellitus is reported here. With the disease being more widespread now, its potential oral complications will be seen with increasing frequency.
口腔黏膜烧伤可能由热、机械、化学、电或辐射损伤引起。临床上，根据损伤的严重程度和范围，这些烧伤可导致局部或弥漫性组织损伤区域。大多数口腔热烧伤会在腭部或舌部产生糜烂或溃疡。
报告一例66岁糖尿病患者因饮用热谷物粥导致腭部烧伤的病例。还讨论了糖尿病在引起口腔黏膜感觉异常从而易发生此次烧伤中的作用。
本文报告了感觉迟钝性腭部烧伤作为糖尿病一种罕见并发症的情况。随着该疾病现在更为普遍，其潜在的口腔并发症将会更频繁地出现。
