Incidence of Taste Disorder and Umami Taste Disorder among the Japanese Elderly and Youth

Takashi Sasano^1*, Shizuko Satoh-Kuriwada¹, Naoto Kaneta¹, Noriaki Shoji¹, Misako Kawai² and Hisayuki Uneyama²

¹Division of Oral Diagnosis, Department of Oral Medicine and Surgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Dentistry, 4-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8575, Japan, E-mail: kuri-shu@dent.tohoku.ac.jp

²Institute of Life Sciences, Ajinomoto Co., Inc., 1–1 Suzuki-cho, Kawasaki-ku, Kawasaki 210-8681, Japan, E-mail: kuri-shu@dent.tohoku.ac.jp

^*Corresponding Author: Takashi Sasano, Division of Oral Diagnosis, Department of Oral Medicine and Surgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Dentistry, 4-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8575, Japan, Fax: +81-22-717-8393