Welcome to the new Smell & Taste Evaluation Center!
The Smell and Taste Evaluation Center provides comprehensive evaluations and treatment suggestions for individuals suffering from chemosensory deficits. The Center aims to enhance accessibility to specialized care, offering a telehealth feature that allows patients to receive evaluations, and explore treatment options with their physicians from the comfort of their own homes, regardless of location. By leveraging telehealth, the Center can reach more individuals who need our expertise, ensuring that they receive the support and treatment they deserve.
The Smell and Taste Evaluation Center provides comprehensive evaluations and treatment suggestions for individuals suffering from chemosensory deficits. The Center aims to enhance accessibility to specialized care, offering a telehealth feature that allows patients to receive evaluations, and explore treatment options with their physicians from the comfort of their own homes, regardless of location. By leveraging telehealth, the Center can reach more individuals who need our expertise, ensuring that they receive the support and treatment they deserve.
The Smell and Taste Evaluation Center is dedicated to helping patients with chemosensory deficits. The olfactory senses are vital for survival, influencing nutrition and social interactions. In humans, they enhance food flavor and help detect dangers like toxic gas and spoiled items. Many individuals, more commonly the elderly, experience diminished smell, leading to safety risks and reduced enjoyment of food.
Research has established a significant connection between the sense of smell and numerous neurological disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease, epilepsy, head trauma, Korsakoff’s psychosis, Huntington’s disease, schizophrenia, and Parkinson’s disease. Additionally, the loss of smell, which can be permanent in some cases, has been observed following COVID-19 infections.
The Smell and Taste Evaluation Center is a place for clinical evaluation, research, and education, aimed at addressing the growing need for understanding and treating olfactory and gustatory disorders.