If you suffer from salivary gland stones, you know how irritating they can be. The standard treatment is surgery, which can be risky and leave a huge scar. For a teenage girl, that can be ...

Loretta Estes Spainhoward had a bad taste in her mouth that worsened when she ate. She simply rinsed her mouth out and forgot about it. Until it happened again. Then again. Six months passed, and ...

Treatments Traditional treatments of salivary gland obstruction have focused largely on temporary relieving symptoms, rather than identifying and eliminating the source of the problem. Increasing ...

Sometimes, a gland may be removed entirely in cases involving multiple stones or persistent infections. SIALENDOSCOPY: There is now a new, minimally invasive option to treat salivary gland ...

BHUBANESWAR: Surgeons of a city-based hospital here removed 27 stones from the submandibular duct of a young man, suffering from salivary gland disorders. With complaints of recurrent swelling of ...

The salivary glands of some tick species could become important research tools for studying how viruses are transmitted from ticks to mammals, and for developing preventive medical countermeasures.

Some causes include bacterial and viral infections, salivary gland stones, poor oral hygiene, gland hypo secretion and medications such as antihistamines, diuretics and beta blockers.

Kenneth T. Izutsu, Sahba Fatherazi, Carol M. Belton, Dolphine Oda, Frank D. Cartwright, George E. Kenny, Mycoplasma orale Infection Affects K⁺ and Cl⁻ Currents in the HSG Salivary Gland Cell Line, In ...

The first hint of this new gland emerged while Wouter Vogel, a radiation oncologist at the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NCI), was probing for damage to salivary glands after radiotherapy for cancer ...

By Nisha Mal 14:07, 3 FEB 2023 Updated 14:08, 3 FEB 2023 Jordan DelNero during her treatment for salivary gland cancer (Image: Irwin Mitchell / SWNS) ...