The major salivary glands produce approximately one quart of saliva each day, which in turn plays a crucial role in food digestion, swallowing, speech, and protection of teeth against bacteria and ...

Alan Ho is a medical oncologist who also researches new drug therapies for people with difficult-to-treat salivary cancers. There are several ways to treat salivary gland cancer, depending on the ...

MSK’s salivary gland tumor experts, including surgeon Bhuvanesh Singh (center), are among the most experienced in the nation. For many people with salivary gland tumors, surgery performed by an expert ...

Adjunctive use of therapy dogs in standard child-life therapy is tied to a modest but significantly greater reductio ...

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.

More information: S. Nayar et al, OP0199 Spatial insights into the salivary glands of patients with Sjögren's disease, Scientific Abstracts (2024). DOI: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2024-eular.5434 ...

A new study published in the journal of BMC Oral Health highlighted the role of salivary microbiota and polyamines in ...

A new study finds that nature-based childcare reduces gastrointestinal symptoms, stress markers, and improves gut microbiota ...