Salivary Gland Problems (salivary gland infection)

Saliva-saliva : Your salivary glands produce as much as a quart of saliva each day. Saliva is important to lubricate your mouth, help with swallowing, protect your teeth against bacteria, and aid in the digestion of food. The three major pairs of salivary glands are:

• Parotid glands on the sides of the face
• Submandibular glands at the floor of the mouth
• Sublingual glands under the tongue

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Saliva : Systemic Diseases , Systemic Conditions

Salivasaliva : Systemic Diseases

Salivary glands and saliva composition affected directly or indirectly, and these changes may contribute to the diagnosis and early detection of disease.

Abnormal secretions that are present in CF cystic fibrosis causes the physician to explore the usefulness of saliva for disease diagnosis. Most studies agree that the saliva of CF patients contains increased calcium (calcium resulted in aggregation of proteins that cause saliva turbidity and phosphate levels that could explain the higher incidence of calculus, more neutral lipids, phospholipids and glycolipids, as a consequence of physico-chemical properties modified saliva in this disease, the increase in urea, uric acid, and total protein, particularly in the submandibular saliva . Saliva from CF

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