Your salivary glands produce saliva and empty it into your mouth through slots called ducts. When these ducts become blocked, ...

The sublingual glands are rarely affected. Salivary stones generally form when mucous sludge combines with calcium hydroxylapatite and deposits within the salivary ducts. While some stones can be seen ...

that become lodged in the salivary glands. It can also occur from an injury that causes narrowing of the salivary ducts. Another common cause of this type is decreased salivary flow, which can ...

A widely publicized paper has drawn scrutiny from physicians and anatomists about the authors’ claims regarding so-called tubarial glands. “I don’t think the paper should be retracted, it should just ...

MSK’s salivary gland tumor experts ... depending on the extent and location of the tumor. Surgery for tumors in a sublingual gland involves removal (excision) of the entire gland. The sublingual ...

Initially, not all salivary glands were thought to be impaired while ... the patient becomes aware of a salty taste because the intralobular ducts have not adequately resorbed sodium and chloride ...

Plasma cells with characteristics of long-lived cells, and factors necessary for long term survival, are present in the salivary glands of patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS), report ...