Salivary gland obstruction results in pain and swelling in the cheek or under the jawline while eating, and foul-tasting drainage into the mouth. Such obstruction can also progress to severe infection ...

If you have a salivary gland infection or the parotid gland becomes blocked due to salivary gland stones or scar tissue, you could also experience jaw pain or swelling.

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.

Salivary gland disorders encompass a range of conditions, including inflammatory diseases, obstructions due to sialolithiasis and stenosis, and autoimmune-associated dysfunction. These disorders ...

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 ...

Even (or especially) Tony Gwynn himself ascribed his salivary gland cancer to his prodigious chaw habit, carried on over decades in baseball. The parotid gland is a salivary gland located just in ...

Michigan has identified 11 confirmed or probable mumps infections thus far in 2025. The contagious viral infection, which affects the salivary glands and causes painful swelling of the jaw, is ...

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 ...