The Advanced Dental Clinic, PortOral, have an innovative treatment, like laser therapy, for those who lost their sense of smell and taste because of a COVID19 infection. The treatment stimulates microcirculation as well as local cell trophism.
The SARS-COV-2 virus can enter the cells and multiply through receptors and protein bonds, which are present in cell membranes. Cells of the nose, throat and upper airways have these receptors in large numbers, therefore facilitating viral dissemination.
And through this process of infection, the virus can compromise the smell, inflaming the site and interrupting odour detection. Regarding taste, the human being can distinguish flavours through the tongue, having receptors called taste buds, which are made up of three types of cells: taste receptors, the support, and basal receptors. Despite still not knowing how this happens, the most likely answer is that infection process affects the taste buds similarly to how it affects the nose.
A loss of taste reduces the saliva production of the patient, due to lack of gustatory stimuli in the salivary glands. Doctor Arethuza stresses that “saliva protects the teeth”, as well as helping our digestive process. For this reason, PortOral bet on therapeutic laser to stimulate microcirculation and the trophism of local cells, as explained by Dr. Arethuza Luna, dentist, specialist in Orthodontics and Facial Orthopedics.
Regarding the results, according to a doctor “there are cases where the patient could begin to smell after the first session”, therefore it is understood that there was no damage to the olfactory sensory neurons. In these cases, there is a “neuronal regeneration and the process lasts around 30 days, where the sense gradually improves.” After several people still had not regained their sense of smell, then there are some people who still have not regained their sense of smell, which may “indicate damage to sensory neurons, or damage to the central nervous system”.
Laser therapy or therapeutic laser is a series of indications, they can be isolated treatments or alongside other treatments.
To find out more, consult a PortOral via telephone: 221 115 432, or by Whatsapp: 910 188 966.
