Taste Recovery

Here are some references to studies on the subject.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16798859
http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=3600133
http://www.thegreenjournal.com/article/S0167-8140(02)00025-7/abstract
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16887272

These articles suggest that much of the sense of taste is recovered in six months after the end of treatment. One article showed recovery in all subjects in six months. The consensus is that the loss of taste is not due to salivary gland dysfunction but due to damage to the taste buds. Some patients never recover their sense of taste completely