Salivary stones, medically termed sialolithiasis, develop when minerals—primarily calcium—gradually crystallize inside these ...

M. Boyd Gillespie, MD, MSc, board-certified otolaryngologist and sleep medicine physician with the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, focuses a large portion of his practice on ...

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 emotionally ...

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 emotionally ...

Sialendoscopy is a miniinvasive procedure which shows the excretory ducts of the salivary glands. To evaluate patient satisfaction with sialendoscopy in submandibular and parotid gland sialolithiasis.

Sialoliths can be removed by sialendoscopy in some cases. But sometimes it fails if the stone is located in the proximal or hilum of Wharton's duct. To evaluate the clinical efficacy of the ...

Cook Medical (Bloomington, Indiana) reported that it has launched a suite of salivary duct products that could advance the sialendoscopy procedures. The applications offer minimally invasive options ...

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

The department of ENT and head and neck surgery of Secunderabad based Yashoda Hospitals, along with Association of Otolaryngology of India (AOI), AP and AOI, Hyderabad, conducted an international ...

Parotidectomy should no longer be regarded as a routine treatment for parotid duct stenosis and should be indicated only in individual cases, report researchers. Treatment of the condition can be ...