ABSTRACT The insufficient data for the associations between hypochromic anemia as an etiological factor and pathogenetic events responsible for the clinical manifestation of burning mouth syndrome was the greatest motivation for us to show the biochemical events found in the oral mucosa due to iron deficiency, through cytological analysis of the tongue epithelium (keratinisation, parakeratosis, degenerated epithelial cells, acanthosis and mitotic activity). Cytomorphological analysis was done i.
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