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Salivary Stones? Ouch!

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SOURCES: 2007 Medical Reference from Medstar Television. Barry Schaitkin, MD, Otolaryngologist, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA.

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Narrator:

Patricia Monioz started experiencing a strange problem around mealtimes.

Patricia Monioz:

Every time I would eat, it would, kept popping. It would get swollen. And I had like all the way down, as far as here, like another chin.

Narrator:

Patricia's trouble involved one of her salivary glands.

Patricia Monioz:

It sounds gross, I know, but I put my finger in there like release the fluid, because that's the only way it would come out.

Narrator:

Doctor Barry Schaitkin diagnosed Patricia with a stone in her submandibular saliva gland.

Barry Schaitkin, M.D.:

People often don't know what they have, and actually their doctors don't know what they have because they're not exceedingly common. It's about one in 30,000 people will get something like this.

Narrator:

These stones are similar to ones that affect the kidneys or gallbladder. In this case, the crystalized stone blocks the passage of saliva, leading to symptoms.

Barry Schaitkin, M.D.:

So when they eat, which ever gland is affected starts to pooch out because the trunk of the tree is obstructed and so they can't get their saliva into their mouth.

Narrator:

Though some stones pass, most don't and need to be removed. Doctor Schaitkin uses a less traumatic endoscopic procedure to collect rocks from affected glands.

Barry Schaitkin, M.D.:

And with a series of progressive dilators we can stretch it up, if you can imagine, to the one millimeter that we need to get a telescope, a very delicate telescope, into the hose that the saliva comes out of.

Narrator:

And once they reach the stone...

Barry Schaitkin, M.D.:

Then with special instruments we can crush or remove the stones as a way of fixing the problem.

Narrator:

For Patricia, this mouthwatering fix was just what she needed to relieve her rocky condition. For WebMD, I'm Damon Meharg.

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