Chemosensory Disorders | Odd Smells and Tastes | Smell Disorders
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Odd Smells and Tastes

Each year, 200,000 Americans seek physician care for chemosensory (smell and taste) complaints. Prominent among these complaints are the disorders of phantogeusia (hallucinated taste) and phantosmia (hallucinated smell).

Phantosmia and phantogeusia can be associated with viral infections, head trauma, toxin exposure including dental work, temporal lobe epilepsy, psychiatric disease and in approximately 5 percent of a normal population.

At the Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation, a thorough initial neurological evaluation is performed. Additional diagnostic testing may also need to be performed to define the diagnosis and to help manage and treat those who suffer from these conditions.

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