The Advanced\nDental Clinic, PortOral, have an innovative treatment, like laser therapy, for\nthose who lost their sense of smell and taste because of a COVID19 infection. The\ntreatment stimulates microcirculation as well as local cell trophism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The\nSARS-COV-2 virus can enter the cells and multiply through receptors and protein\nbonds, which are present in cell membranes. Cells of the nose, throat and upper\nairways have these receptors in large numbers, therefore facilitating viral\ndissemination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And through\nthis process of infection, the virus can compromise the smell, inflaming the\nsite and interrupting odour detection. Regarding taste, the human being can\ndistinguish flavours through the tongue, having receptors called taste buds,\nwhich are made up of three types of cells: taste receptors, the support, and\nbasal receptors. Despite still not knowing how this happens, the most likely\nanswer is that infection process affects the taste buds similarly to how it\naffects the nose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A loss of\ntaste reduces the saliva production of the patient, due to lack of gustatory\nstimuli in the salivary glands. Doctor Arethuza stresses that \u201csaliva protects\nthe teeth\u201d, as well as helping our digestive process. For this reason, PortOral\nbet on therapeutic laser to stimulate microcirculation and the trophism of\nlocal cells, as explained by Dr. Arethuza Luna, dentist, specialist in\nOrthodontics and Facial Orthopedics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Regarding\nthe results, according to a doctor \u201cthere are cases where the patient could\nbegin to smell after the first session\u201d, therefore it is understood that there\nwas no damage to the olfactory sensory neurons. In these cases, there is a \u201cneuronal\nregeneration and the process lasts around 30 days, where the sense gradually\nimproves.\u201d After several people still had not regained their sense of smell, then\nthere are some people who still have not regained their sense of smell, which\nmay “indicate damage to sensory neurons, or damage to the central nervous\nsystem”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Laser\ntherapy or therapeutic laser is a series of indications, they can be isolated\ntreatments or alongside other treatments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n