Zinc Gluconate in the Treatment of Dysgeusiaa Randomized Clinical Trial
S.M. Heckmann1,*,
P. Hujoel2,
S. Habiger1,
W. Friess3,
M. Wichmann1,
J.G. Heckmann4, and
T. Hummel5
1 School of Dental Medicine, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Glückstr. 11, 91054 Erlangen, Germany;
2 Dept. of Dental Public Health Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of Washington, Seattle, USA;
3 Dept. of Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Technology and Biopharmaceutics, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany;
4 Dept. of Neurology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany; and
5 Smell & Taste Clinic, Dept. of Otorhinolaryngology, University of Dresden, Germany;

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Figure. Taste test [number of taste strips (out of 32) correctly identified; (A) and self-rated dysgeusia (in % of the visual analogue scale; (B) before (black bars) and after (white bars) therapy (means, standard errors of means; zinc group, n = 26; placebo group. n = 24).
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