This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. After that, treatment can vary, at least for the major salivary glands.

LSU Health Shreveport has improved the treatment of salivary stones. Salivary stones are calcifications that can form inside the salivary gland or duct. It can block the flow of saliva and cause dry ...

Nicole Gibbs shared some very tough news with her followers on Monday: a cancer diagnosis. The 26-year-old will undergo surgery on Friday to remove a growth on the roof of her mouth that came back ...

Monomorphic adenomas refer to a group of rare tumors of the salivary gland that include basal cell adenomas and canalicular adenomas. Basal cell adenomas are observed predominantly in the parotid ...

Your nurse will go through a series of questions on a checklist to make sure you are ready for surgery. They ask you to: If you have false teeth you can usually keep them in until you get to the ...

Removing the stones without causing injury to the salivary duct was a huge challenge according to the doctors. Doctors removed 53 stones from a 66-year-old Iraqi woman’s glands in an operation at a ...

Malignant tumors of salivary glands are uncommon: the world annual incidence rates are between 4 and <0.05 per 100,000. 1 In Europe SGC has an incidence of 1.2 per 100,000, according to Surveillance ...

Before surgery, you have tests to check your fitness and you meet members of your treatment team. You usually go into hospital on the morning of your operation. The length of your hospital stay ...