You’ve heard of gallstones and kidney stones, but did you know that similar pebble-like deposits can form and grow in your salivary glands? They’re called sialoliths, and they sound 100% godawful.

A giant calcified salivary stone, which was diagnosed initially as an impacted tooth, was recently found growing in the mandible of a 37-year-old man. A rare 2-cm-long sialolith was removed, according ...

Images in Clinical Medicine Sialolith of the Submandibular Salivary Gland Authors: Celso Augusto Lemos-Júnior, D.D.S., Ph.D., and Alessandra Camargo, D.D.S. Author Info & Affiliations Published ...

An otherwise healthy 77-year-old woman presented with a 6-month history of dull pain on the right side of the tongue. Intraoral examination revealed a visible sialolith emerging from Wharton's duct, ...

Four years ago, Joe Juice, a then 15-year-old American Quarter Horse gelding, had a sialolith removed from the right side of his face at the William R. Pritchard Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital ...

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