Introduction: Xerostomia is considered as the dry mouth sensation that may appear in
conjunction with decreased salivary volume. Objective: To evaluate the inventory of
xerostomia in relation to salivary flow in patients attending the elderly clinic of the
school of Dentistry of the Universidad Santo Tomás de Bucaramanga. Methods: A
cross-sectional analytical study was carried out in the patients of the elderly clinic,
evaluating the sociodemographic variables, the inventory of xerostomia and oral Ardor
and elvolumen of stimulated and unstimulated salivary flow. The salivary flow was
measured by tests of Sialometría and the inventory of xerostomia and oral Ardor
applied in the clinic was used. The statistical analysis was carried out in the program
STATa 14.0. Results: 66.99% of the participants were women, the average age of the
group was 67.4 years and the majority of the population belonged to Stratum 3
(36.89%). In stimulated and unstimulated salivary flow tests, the level most frequently
presented was normal. The average of the Xerostomia inventory score was 22.6 DS of
7.82 and the median was 21con RI (17-28) a negative correlation (-0.2112) was
evidencio between the xerostomia score and the unstimulated salivary flow (P = 0.03).
In addition, the cutting point of the xerostomia inventory with greater area under the
curve (0.67) was 22 in the very low non-stimulated salivary flow test and the
Sialometría test with greater area under the curve (0.71) was the very low unstimulated
salivary flow. Conclusions: The Xerostomia inventory presents a negative correlation
with unstimulated salivary flow. The Sialometría test with greater discriminating
capacity of patients with xerostomia is the unstimulated salivary flow considering the
normal and very low levels. From the score 22 in the inventory of Xerostomia,
considering the salivary flow very low, could be discriminated as a screening test of
the presence of xerostomia and then suggest the test Sialometría considering the
classification of salivary flow normal and very low