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Recent News and Articles on the Keywords: tonsil + change + taste  Related to the article below (Last Update: 8/5/2008)

Dr. George Goler campaigned to create healthier conditions in ...
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, NY - Aug 4, 2008
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You?ve come a long way, parents
Bend Bulletin (subscription), OR - Jul 11, 2008
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Heritage Days is this weekend
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Columbia Daily Tribune, MO - Jul 17, 2008
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Keep bad breath at bay
Baxter Bulletin, AR - Jul 8, 2008
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Seoul Food
LA City Beat, CA - Jul 30, 2008
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Sealed in a kiss
Canada.com, Canada - Jul 16, 2008
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Same-stage palatopharyngeal and hypopharyngeal surgery for severe obstructive sleep apnea -
HY Li, PC Wang, CY Hsu, NH Chen, LA Lee, TJ Fang - Acta Oto-Laryngologica, 2004 - informaworld.com
... persistent nasal regurgitation, swallowing disturbance or change in taste was noted ...
The hypertrophic lingual tonsil, although obscure the laryngeal structure ...

Posttonsillectomy Taste Distortion: A Significant Complication. -
MR Goins, DZ Pitovski - The Laryngoscope, 2004 - laryngoscope.com
... the right posterior (RP) tongue base and right tonsillar fossa that ... innervated by
the right LBGN, there was no change in the phantom (metallic-like) taste. ...

New variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease presenting with loss of taste and smell -
M REUBER, ASN AL-DIN, A BABORIE, A CHAKRABARTY - British Medical Journal, 2001 - jnnp.bmj.com
... Neuronal loss, gliosis, and spongiform change were most ... Taste and smell losses in
normal aging and disease. ... by displacement of the cerebellar tonsils into the ...

[CITATION] THE RELATION OF THE TONSIL TO THYROID DISEASE.
BR SHURLY - The Laryngoscope, 1914

Lingual Tonsillectomy Using Bipolar Radiofrequency Plasma Excision -
S Robinson, SL Ettema, L Brusky, BT Woodson - Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, 2006 - Elsevier
... change in taste, which fully resolved at the 3-month follow-up. Only 2 of these
patients have been revised requiring additional removal of lingual tonsils. ...

DISORDERS OF SMELL AND TASTE -
MM Cullen, DA Leopold - Medical Clinics of North America, 1999 - Elsevier
... is vulnerable to injury in the tonsillar fossa, where it runs deep to the tonsillar
capsule. ... Loss of taste? ... Function of gustatory system before current change? ...

[CITATION] MANIFESTATIONS OF THYROID DISEASE IN THE UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT.*.
BR SHURLY - The Laryngoscope, 1911

Glosso-Pharyngeal Neuralgia
H Cohen - The Journal of Laryngology and Otology, 2007 - Cambridge Univ Press
... whilst anesthetizing the surface of the pharynx and tonsillar area with ... of the skull
showed no bone change and a ... of the tongue and no loss of taste ; no motor ...

Initial US pilot study: Palatal implants for the treatment of snoring -
JH Romanow, PJ Catalano - Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, 2006 - Elsevier
... body mass index (BMI), assessment of the nasal airway, tonsil size, uvular ... Secondary
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Fiber types of the lingual branch of the trigeminal nerve, chorda tympani, lingual-tonsillar and … -
T Hanamori, T Kunitake, K Kato, H Kannan - Neuroscience Letters, 1996 - Elsevier
... via the chorda tympani (CT), lingual-tonsillar branch of ... we investigated the fiber
types in the taste nerves contributing to ... 1. Any change in BP and HR was not ...

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Study Shows No Change In Sense Of Taste After Tonsil Removal
In a small study of patients undergoing tonsillectomy, or removal of the tonsils, none reported an ongoing dysfunction in their sense of taste following the procedure, according to a report in the July issue of Archives of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

Together with the sense of smell and nerve impulses in the mouth, "the sense of taste contributes considerably to flavor perception during eating and drinking and thus plays a major role in the enjoyment of foods and beverages," according to background information in the article. The sense of taste shows little deterioration during aging but can be weakened by disease or medications. Accidental nerve damage during some medical procedures, including radiation treatment, middle ear surgery, dental or oral surgery or tonsillectomy, also can cause taste dysfunction.
Christian A. Mueller, M.D., of the University of Vienna, Austria, and colleagues asked 65 tonsillectomy patients (42 females, 23 males; average age 28) to rate their own sense of smell and taste before surgery on a scale of zero to 100, where zero is no sense of taste or smell and 100 is an excellent sense of taste and smell. Taste function and sensitivity also was assessed one day before surgery with gustatory testing, during which taste strips for four concentrations of sweet, sour, salty and bitter were applied to both sides of the front and back areas of the tongue. Between 64 and 173 days after surgery, patients were asked to report any changes to their sense of taste or smell and again asked to rate them from zero to 100. Gustatory testing was performed again on 32 patients.

On average, patients' ratings of their sense of taste and smell decreased following surgery - the average score was 62.3 before surgery and 51.1 after surgery. However, there were no significant changes in gustatory test scores following surgery. In addition, none of the patients reported ongoing dysfunction in their sense of taste or smell at the follow-up questioning.

"This raises the question of whether taste ratings also depend on attentional factors," the authors write. "Thus, it may be hypothesized that the patients' ratings of taste function were influenced by the presence of postoperative pain, oral discomfort or wound healing during the first days and weeks after tonsillectomy."

"A number of case reports and a few systematic investigations of patients experiencing taste disorders after tonsillectomy have been published," they conclude. "However, based on the present results, taste loss after tonsillectomy seems to be a rare complication."

Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2007;133(7):668-671
http://www.archotol.ama-assn.org
 
 
 
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