Alarmingly, head and neck cancer ranks second most common in India, heavily linked to tobacco use, especially smoking.

Cystadenoma of salivary glands is an uncommon benign neoplasm that presents intraluminal papillary projections. The authors describe one case of cystadenoma located in the buccal mucosa and highlight ...

If the stone blocks the salivary duct, the gland can become infected, a condition called sialadenitis. A doctor may be able to feel a salivary gland stone while examining a patient, or see one by ...

A 25-year-old woman was diagnosed with an aggressive salivary gland cancer years after she first started having a nagging toothache, which was passed off as a run-of-the-mill sinus infection. Her ...

What began as a routine toothache turned into a nightmare for Nicole Kowalski-Kleinsasser, a vibrant 25-year-old woman from Nevada, whose life took a tragic turn after a delayed cancer diagnosis.

Kleinsasser, initially dismissed a toothache as a minor issue, only to discover it was a rare, aggressive salivary gla ...

Millions of people are affected by chronic dry mouth, or xerostomia, an agonizing side effect of damaged salivary glands. Currently, there is no cure for it. Researchers have established the world's ...

When a nagging pain keeps you up at night, most of us chalk it up to something minor—a sinus infection, a toothache, maybe ...

Kleinsasser, from Nevada in the US, was just 25 years old when she first developed symptoms of the disease that would ...

Abstract: Objective: Using Surface enhanced laser desorption and ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (SELDI-TOF MS) analysis of the salivary proteins of breast cancer patients (liver qi ...

Millions of people are affected by chronic dry mouth, or xerostomia, an agonizing side effect of damaged salivary glands.

This condition, often caused by radiation treatment for head and neck cancer, affects millions and currently has no cure.