Table 4.

Delphi survey participant suggested names^* for “Burning Mouth Syndrome.”

Qualifier terms	N=22† (%)	Descriptor terms	N=17 (%)	Classification terms‡	N=17 (%)
No qualifier needed	13 (59)	Burning Mouth	13 (76)	Disorder	13 (76)
Primary	8 (36)	Oral Burning	10 (59)	Disturbance	5 (29)
Chronic	4 (18)	None of the Above	3 (17)	Dysesthesia	3 (17)
Persistent	2 (9)	Oral mucosal pain	2 (12)	Symptoms	3 (17)
Complex	2 (9)	Intraoral mucosal sensory	1 (6)	Disease	2 (12)
Idiopathic	1 (5)	Oral Sensitivity	1 (6)	Symptom complex	1 (6)
		Tropical Mouth	1 (6)	Syndrome	1 (6)
		Orofacial pain	0	Dysfunction	1 (6)
				None of the above	1 (6)

Items in bold reached consensus.

^*The following names were suggested by participants; Burning Mouth, Burning Mouth Disease, Burning Mouth Disorder, Burning Mouth Dysfunction, Burning Mouth Symptoms, Burning Mouth Symptom Complex, Chronic Persistent Oral Mucosa Dysesthesia, Complex Oral Sensitivity Disorder, Intraoral Mucosal Sensory Disorder, Intraoral Mucosal Sensory Disturbance, Persistent Oral Mucosal Dysesthesia, Persistent Idiopathic Orofacial Pain, Primary And Secondary Burning Mouth Pain, Tropical Mouth Disturbance, Tropical Mouth Dysfunction.

Names were divided into their components of a qualifier, descriptor or classification term. Voting in subsequent Rounds 2 and 3 occurred at the level of the components (qualifier, descriptor, and classification term).

^‡Individuals were given the option to select up to two classification terms.

^†After round 2 there was no preference among experts for a qualifier, thus in Round 3 individuals were asked to select their top two choices for a qualifier term ranking them by preference, the top choice option 1 was weighted double the value of option 2. The question had a total of 11 responders and 4 non-responders, thus the maximum score any option could receive was 22.