title: Traumatic Dysgeusia, an Unusual Complication of Facial Trauma: A Case Report.
abstract: The chemical senses of taste and smell are important to human life, because they play an important role in detecting potential environmental hazards. Humans can identify countless different flavors by the simultaneous perception of taste and smell. Reports of sensory loss after craniocerebral trauma began to appear in the medical literature in the middle 1800s. Dysgeusia associated with head injuries is rare and its reported incidence is 0.4 to 0.5%. This report describes the clinical case of a 32-year-old man with Le Fort I and III fractures treated with surgical reduction and fixation. The patient presented with dysgeusia after slight improvement of his preoperative anosmia. The prognosis is favorable and the treatment is prospective.
authors.affiliation: Master's Degree Candidate, Department of Surgery and Integrated Clinic, Araçatuba Dental School-UNESP, Araçatuba, São Paulo, Brazil. Electronic address: joao_bonardi@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: João Paulo
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Bonardi
authors.affiliation: Resident, Department of Oral Medicine and Pediatric Dentistry, State University of Londrina, Londrina, Paraná, Brazil.
authors.forename: Fernanda Herrera
authors.initials: FH
authors.lastname: da Costa
authors.affiliation: Professor, Department of Oral Medicine and Pediatric Dentistry, State University of Londrina, Londrina, Paraná, Brazil.
authors.forename: Glaykon Alex Vitti
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Stabile
authors.affiliation: Professor, Department of Oral Medicine and Pediatric Dentistry, State University of Londrina, Londrina, Paraná, Brazil.
authors.forename: Cecilia Luiz
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Pereira-Stabile
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic; D000328:Adult; D004408:Dysgeusia / Q000209:etiology*; D005151:Facial Injuries / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male