title: [Xerostomia].
abstract: Xerostomia is a frequent complaint and a real handicap for many patients, often drug-induced. Treatments, even if they are currently unsatisfactory, are aimed at improved oral comfort and quality of life for patients, and to prevent or treat local complications. It consists in humecting buccal mucous membranes with artificial saliva; or in stimulating the glands if functional salivary tissue still exists.
authors.affiliation: Groupe hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière-Charles-Foix, service de stomatologie et de chirurgie maxillo-faciale, consultation de pathologie de la muqueuse buccale, 75013 Paris, France. Electronic address: scarlette.agbo-godeau@aphp.fr.
authors.forename: Scarlette
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Agbo-Godeau
authors.affiliation: Groupe hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière-Charles-Foix, service de stomatologie et de chirurgie maxillo-faciale, consultation de pathologie de la muqueuse buccale, 75013 Paris, France.
authors.forename: Aline
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Guedj
authors.affiliation: Groupe hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière-Charles-Foix, service de stomatologie et de chirurgie maxillo-faciale, consultation de pathologie de la muqueuse buccale, 75013 Paris, France.
authors.forename: Sabine
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Marès
authors.affiliation: Groupe hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière-Charles-Foix, service de stomatologie et de chirurgie maxillo-faciale, consultation de pathologie de la muqueuse buccale, 75013 Paris, France; Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie-Sorbonne, Paris 6, 75013 Paris, France.
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Goudot
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D012463:Saliva / Q000502:physiology; D014987:Xerostomia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy