The glossopharyngeal nerve is involved in taste, salivation, swallowing, and speech. It also provides nerve supply to the tonsils and middle ear and regulates blood flow to the brain.

Parotid gland abscesses caused unusual facial nerve palsy in two patients, according to a case report published on July 30 in the International Journal of Surgery Case Reports. Only 15 other cases of ...

In this disorder, nerves regenerate after damage to either of the large saliva glands that sit on either side of the face, just in front of the ears, called the parotid glands.

Scientists have worked hard to figure out how our salivary glands strut their stuff--both because it's interesting ... Saliva production is controlled by nerve signals from the brain to the glands.

Nerve Cells Help Generate Salivary Glands (3 of 5) Reports and Proceedings. American ... The image shows a single projection of a stack of optical sections of an E14 mouse salivary gland.

THIS report summarizes the experience with tumors of salivary-gland origin observed at the Massachusetts General Hospital from 1930 to 1941, inclusive, and at the Pondville State Cancer Hospital ...

Facial Nerve and Stomatitis. Levinson et al. reported two patients who rapidly developed transient facial paralysis after having received high doses of 131 I. ... 2 Salivary Gland Center, ...

Parotid Tumors: Nair’s mini-incision technique for parotidectomy is performed by placing a 2.5-3cm long incision behind the ear lobe. Parotid gland tumors make up three per cent of all head and ...

Cranial Nerve IX, the glossopharyngeal nerve, innervates the parotid glands, two glands that sit in front of your ears and produce 10 percent of your saliva; and during eating, up to 25 percent.

Pain or swelling in the parotid gland; Chronic pain during meals. Pain due to blockage of the salivary gland increases instead as eating progresses making it different from first bite syndrome. 3 ...