Monitor lizards are found across much of Africa and Asia and include giants like the Komodo dragon. But what do monitor ...

Pseudo-Xerostomia — Patients feel dry despite normal saliva flow, often due to nerve damage, anxiety or microbiome imbalances. A 2023 study on oral diseases found that 40% of xerostomia cases involve ...

Scientists have identified tricellulin loss as the root cause of dry mouth in Sjögren's syndrome, and successfully reversed ...

Beyond its role in the initiation of digestion, the oral microbiome appears to be key to maintaining both oral and systemic ...

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Michigan has identified 11 confirmed or probable mumps infections thus far in 2025. The contagious viral infection, which affects the salivary glands and causes painful swelling of the jaw, is spread ...

Whenever we yawn, muscles in our mouth and tongue can squeeze some of the saliva-producing glands in there. As a result, we might squirt a tiny stream of saliva without even noticing it! Yeah, just ...

Sjögren's syndrome is a chronic autoimmune disorder that affects millions worldwide, especially women, causing unrelenting dryness of the mouth and eyes.

Adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC) is a rare kind of cancer. It usually starts in the glands that make your saliva. There are four glands under your tongue. You have two submandibular and two ...

Radiotherapy or chemoradiation to the head or neck can affect your salivary glands. This means you may not make as much spit (saliva) as before and so your mouth may become dry. Your salivary glands ...

Current approaches to artificial intelligence (AI) are unlikely to create models that can match human intelligence, according to a recent survey of industry experts.