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A burn is damage to your body's tissues caused by heat, chemicals, electricity, sunlight, or radiation. Scalds from hot liquids and steam, building fires and flammable liquids and gases are the most common causes of burns. Another kind is an inhalation injury, caused by breathing smoke. There are three types of burns:
Burning mouth syndrome (BMS) is a painful, frustrating condition described as a burning or scalding sensation in the tongue, lips, palate, or the entire mouth, usually without clinical and laboratory findings or any detectable reason. Other names for the condition include scalded mouth syndrome and stomatodynia.ossible causes of burning mouth syndrome, include 1  : Dry mouth syndrome, caused by medications, alcohol and tobacco use, aging. 2  Oral thrush, an infection that occurs when the chemical balance of the body is disrupted and the fungus Candida albicans grows out of control.