Papers by Frank Catalanotto
Behavioral Biology, Dec 1, 1978
Journal of Dental Education, Sep 1, 2017
Annals of Neurology, Nov 1, 1984
Taste sensitivity in 79 patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and 65 age- and sex-matched control... more Taste sensitivity in 79 patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and 65 age- and sex-matched control subjects was measured with a sip-and-spit, suprathreshold scaling, magnitude estimation procedure using six concentrations each of sodium chloride, sucrose, citric acid, and quinine hydrochloride. Results were analyzed with a taste scoring system and by plotting psychophysical functions (log concentration versus log magnitude estimate) normalized to 1.0 M sucrose. Gender did not affect taste scores, but age was inversely related, so the results were analyzed by an analysis of covariance with age as the covariant. There was a significant alteration in taste sensitivity in the subjects with MS for sodium chloride and quinine hydrochloride stimuli but not for sucrose and citric acid; these results were confirmed by a separate analysis of the psychophysical functions. Some of the MS taste scores correlated with MS functional and physical disability scores. Taste sensitivity was not correlated with clinical history or presence of facial symptoms.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Nov 1, 1987
American Journal of Otolaryngology, Jul 1, 1983
PubMed, Oct 1, 2017
Currently, about 46 million seniors, citizens over the age of 65, live in the United States. That... more Currently, about 46 million seniors, citizens over the age of 65, live in the United States. That number is expected to roughly double to more than 98 million by 2060, an increase from the current 15% of the population to 24%. Seniors are living longer and, due to advances in dental care and access to fluoridated water, keeping more of their teeth. As a result, many will be seeking to access services through a dental care delivery system that is already struggling to meet existing need. This article will describe emerging oral health workforce models, as well as interprofessional team approaches, that may help improve access to the growing population of senior citizens. The article will include discussions on dental therapists, dental hygienists, physicians, nurses, and physician assistants.
Archives of Oral Biology, Oct 1, 1973
Behavioral and Neural Biology, Jul 1, 1980
American Journal of Otolaryngology, Jul 1, 1983
Partial loss of taste function can take a variety of forms. Losses can be specific to one taste q... more Partial loss of taste function can take a variety of forms. Losses can be specific to one taste quality or to one tongue locus. In addition, the shapes of psychophysical functions can be altered so that taste intensity no longer grows normally with concentration. Magnitude matching, an efficient psychophysical scaling method (based on magnitude estimation of stimuli from two sensory continua), can provide a relatively quick assessment of a patient's ability to taste the four taste qualities--sweet, salty, sour, and bitter. When taste intensity and loudness are scaled in the same session, a person with normal hearing who has taste loss will match taste intensities to abnormally weak sounds. Spatial losses are detected by placing pieces of filter paper soaked in taste solutions on specific tongue loci. Dysgeusia, the presence of a chronic taste in the mouth, can result from abnormal substances in the mouth (e.g., via saliva or from poor oral hygiene) or can reflect disorders of the central nervous system.
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Jun 1, 1978
Journal of Nutrition, Jun 1, 1979
Previous studies have demonstrated that zinc deficient rats have elevated taste preferences for t... more Previous studies have demonstrated that zinc deficient rats have elevated taste preferences for tastant-containing solutions normally preferred or rejected by zinc sufficient rats when tested in a two-bottle, 24-hour procedure. Since that test does not control for postingestional determinants upon fluid consumption, we employed a two-bottle, 1-hour test combined with a restricted 3-hour eating period to evaluate taste preferences in seven rats fed a zinc deficient (1.3 ppm zinc) diet and nine rats pair-fed a zinc sufficient diet (100 ppm zinc). After 31 days of feeding, all rats were tested for 2 days (1 hour/day) with a choice between water and each of the following solutions: 0.15 M sodium chloride (NaCl), 2.5 X 10(-3) M Hydrochloric acid (HCl), 0.15 M NaCl, 2.5 X 10(-3) M HCl, 1.28 X 10(-6) M quinine sulfate (QS), 0.30 M NaCl and 1.28 X 10(p6) M QS. The zinc deficient rats demonstrated significantly greater preferences for all of the tastant-containing solutions but showed both significant increases and decreases in total volume intakes. Analysis of the individual water and tastant-containing fluid intakes demonstrated that the zinc sufficient rats consumed significantly more water but significantly less tastant-containing fluid than the zinc deficient rats. These results demonstrate that the increased preferences of zinc deficient rats may be related to preingestional, i.e., taste, rather than postingestion cues.
Archives of Oral Biology, Oct 1, 1972
Abstract Taste acuity in control and surgically desalivated rats was evaluated with a two-bottle ... more Abstract Taste acuity in control and surgically desalivated rats was evaluated with a two-bottle preference test. Rats were presented with a choice between water and various concentrations of Nacl, HCl and quinine sulphate (QS) solutions. Intake of the latter solutions was expressed as a percentage of the total intake. Total volume intake was expressed as ml intake/g body weight. When presented with a choice between the water and salt solutions, both immediately and 7 months after desalivation, experimental rats showed a variable response as compared to controls, suggesting some type of abnormality in regulation of salt solution intake. Control rats showed a marked rejection of the HCl (range 5.2–16 per cent) and QS (range 4.2–11.8 per cent) solutions while the desalivated rats showed significantly less rejection (range 25–57.4 per cent for HCl and 73.7–31.8 per cent for QS). On most test days, volume intake of the desalivates was greater than the controls, both immediately and 7 months after desalivation. The data suggest a decrease in taste acuity in rats without normal salivary flow.
Postgraduate Medicine, 1987
Findings from 441 patient evaluations performed at the Taste and Smell Clinic of the Connecticut ... more Findings from 441 patient evaluations performed at the Taste and Smell Clinic of the Connecticut Chemosensory Clinical Research Center are presented. Taste and smell dysfunction was the chief complaint in all patients. The diagnostic approach included tests of taste and smell function; history taking; physical, neurologic, otorhinolaryngologic, and nutritional examinations; and clinical laboratory screening tests. Results indicate that the most common chemosensory dysfunction is probably olfactory: 86% of patients in this series had measurable loss of smell function. The most common cause of olfactory deficit was nasal and/or sinus disease (30% of patients), followed by idiopathic conditions (26%) and prior upper respiratory infection (19%). Assessment of individual components of the evaluation suggests that a total circulating eosinophil count may be useful as a screening test for nasal and/or sinus disease among patients whose chief complaint is chemosensory dysfunction.
Journal of pediatric dentistry, 2000
Dental Abstracts, Nov 1, 2012
Journal of Dental Education, Jul 1, 2004
![Figure][1] Thank you for giving me the honor to work with you this coming year as President of ... more ![Figure][1] Thank you for giving me the honor to work with you this coming year as President of the American Dental Education Association. I am truly grateful! I also appreciate the opportunity to spend a few minutes with you now, talking about the presidential initiatives I hope to
Dental health, 2016
Oral Health Provider Perceptions of Dental Therapists and Oral Health Equity in the Southeastern ... more Oral Health Provider Perceptions of Dental Therapists and Oral Health Equity in the Southeastern United States Purpose: A growing need for oral health care is challenged by the maldistribution of oral health providers and lack of opportunity to access oral health care in the current system among underserved populations. Emerging workforce models, such as dental therapists, is one option for improving oral health equity and promoting access across racial/ethnic and socio-demographic groups while addressing those who suffer from disparate lack of access. The purpose of this study is to investigate existing dental workforce perspectives in several southeastern states about emerging workforce models, specifically dental therapists, as a first step in moving toward workforce diversity and oral health equity. Procedures: Sixteen dental clinicians participated in focus group research. Findings: Open coding and the constant comparative method was used to analyze the data. Five themes emerged. Conclusions: The findings showed that participants held exclusionary and contradictory attitudes toward providing care to marginalized and underserved groups, questioned whether dental therapists had the training and skill to practice certain procedures and were most concerned about maintaining their own economic security. Findings were characterized by an absence of cultural competency and a resistance to intellectual inquisitiveness. Dialogue about how to address oral health inequity for the poor and underserved was given scant attention. These findings raise serious concerns as to whether dentists will become collaborative with other sectors of society to remedy the social policies that lead to oral health disparities and are willing to address the inequitable pain and suffering among those without access to oral health care.
Journal of the American Dental Association, Jul 1, 1999
Page 1. JADA welcomes letters from readers on topics of current in-terest in dentistry. The Journ... more Page 1. JADA welcomes letters from readers on topics of current in-terest in dentistry. The Journal reserves the right to edit all communications and requires that all letters be typed, double-spaced and signed. The views expressed ...
Journal of Dental Education, Feb 1, 2019
Behavioral Biology, Dec 1, 1978
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