DM is considered one of the systemic causes of burning
mouth syndrome (BMS). The latest studies of this pathology
suggest that the cause is a peripheral neuropathy
(16). Moore et al. (22), in a study carried out on 371 adult
patients with type 1 DM, concluded that the majority of
diabetic patients with BMS were mainly women who
had developed a peripheral neuropathy due to their DM.
This, and other similarities found between BMS and the
peripheral neuropathy, suggests that a neuropathic process
could be the underlying cause of BMS (22).