Your salivary glands produce saliva and empty it into your mouth through slots called ducts. When these ducts become blocked, they can't produce enough saliva to moisten your food for proper eating.

Salivary gland obstruction results in pain and swelling in ... Increasing fluid intake, sucking on sour candies or lemons, applying warm compresses, and massaging the swollen gland are common ...

Initially, not all salivary glands were thought to be impaired while those glands that demonstrated damage seemed to heal spontaneously without further subjective and objective symptomatology.

The findings may have implications for radiotherapy, a cancer treatment that can cause damage to salivary glands and leave lasting complications. Doctors don’t regularly come across undiscovered bits ...

The glands had a firm, rubbery consistence; they were neither tender nor inflamed, and the overlying skin was freely movable. Two patients had associated swelling of the submaxillary salivary glands.

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 ...

Adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC) is a rare malignancy of the secretory glands with a high tendency to invade adjacent tissue and spread to the lung, bone or liver. No treatments other than surgery or ...

Discover how the medicinal orchid Dendrobium officinale (Tiepi Shihu) improves salivary gland function, reduces inflammation, ...

Health.  Julianne McGowan became the first person in the world to receive treatment of Sjorgren disease.  Sjogren's disease is a disorder that affects moisture-producing glands in the eyes, mouth, and ...