Traumatic dysgeusia, an unusual complication of facial trauma: A case report

Abstract The chemical senses of taste and smell are important to human life, as they play an important role in detecting potential environmental hazards. Humans are able to identify countless different flavors by means of the simultaneous perception of taste and smell. Reports of sensory loss after craniocerebral trauma began to appear in the medical literature in the middle 1800s. Dysgeusia associated with head injuries is rare and its reported incidence is of 0.4-0.5%. This paper presents the clinical case of a 32-year-old male patient with Le Fort I and III fractures, treated with surgical reduction and fixation. The patient presented dysgeusia after a slight improvement of his preoperative anosmia. The prognosis is favorable and the treatment is prospective.