Explain how you can damage your taste cells and not loose your sense of taste permanently. What kind of cells are we talking about?

 

Taste cells helps us to know bitter, sweet, sour, salty and umami.

Taste cells can be damaged through;

-Infections in your nose or throat. Due to conditions within the nasal opening and throat, the taste cells can be damaged temporarily. After some time, when a person recovers from an infection, the sense of taste is not lost permanently.

Dental problems. When a patient is experiencing dental issues, the taste cells can be damaged. The gustatory cells within the mouth are mostly damaged. When a patient recovers from a dental-problems, he/she can regain his/her sense of taste.

The kind of cells we are talking about are;

Olfactory cells and gustatory cells 

olfactory cells are cells up the nose and paired with the nerves that give information to the brain.

Gustatory cells- are found in the tongue and the throat.