Pizza Palate Burns | Treatment, Home Remedies and Prevention

After taking first bite of steaming hot pizza or drinking initial sip of hot coffee, we experience pain across the roof of the mouth because of the burn caused by the hot cheese, liquid.

 ‘Minor burns to the hot food’ is a common experience. The palate can also be burnt due to various other hot liquids or even foods; but called as pizza palate as is caused mostly by the pizza and considered as the most common culprit.

Pizza Palate burns

The cheese on top holds in the heat. Pizza can be upto 200 dregee F when put in the mouth. A pizza burn will heal on its own. Of all the parts of the body, mouth has the greatest healing potential. Almost all the cells of the mouth turn over almost every few days.

Xerostomia: subjective feeling of dry mouth | Cause, Symptoms & treatment

Xerostomia occurs as a consequence of the decrease of the flow of saliva. But only when salivary flow is reduced by 50% or more notice the dry mouth or xerostomia.

Xerostomia affects 46% of the population. It usually appears as the clinical manifestation of salivary gland dysfunction but sometimes dry mouth or xerostomia may occur with a normal flow of saliva.

Intake of drugs is the leading cause of dry mouth. There is a correlation between the degree of dryness and the amount of drugs. 400 types of drugs produce xerostomia or dry mouth.

Dry mouth is the leading cause of tooth decay.

What Causes Xerostomia

·         Radiotherapy in head and neck cancer

·         Intake of medications: antidepressants, antihistamines, diuretics

·         Autoimmune diseases: Sjogren's Syndrome