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Wharton's duct

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eighter7@ev1net.net - 01 May 2006 00:53 GMT
I have a chronic health condition and had suffer a long time with a
salivary stone I had hoped would pass. Finally I needed to have the
gland removed on the troublesome side about three months ago.

I have been to dentist, Doctors and asked my own ENT what this
drainage is thet keeps comeing out of the duct and looks somewhat
milky with a yellow or green tinges.

I have reseached this fro several weeks now and at my wits end
with this and really do not know who or specifically what specialist
or perhaps a researcher might be able to isolate and solve a problem
of keeping this junk out of my mouth.

Neurologist ?
Internal medicine?
Enochronologist?
ENT? does not think there is a problem

Dentist does not know but insists I need to get an old root canal and
a inlayed tooth reworked or extracted and I want proof of what the
fluid id before spending any more money on teeth.

Thanks
Steven Bornfeld - 01 May 2006 03:22 GMT
> I have a chronic health condition and had suffer a long time with a
> salivary stone I had hoped would pass. Finally I needed to have the
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>
> Thanks

    Do I understand that there is discharge in the area where the
submandibular gland was removed?
    You should know that besides Wharton's duct, there are many minor
(sublingual) glands with small ducts that empty along the same process
under the tongue (plica sublingualis).
    There is no reason any dentist would be likely to confuse purulent
discharge from a tooth with discharge from an infected sublingual or
submaxillary gland.  If I were unsure of just what structure was the
source here, I would refer to an oral and maxillofacial surgeon, for
whom salivary gland problems are an almost daily problem.

Good luck,
Steve
 
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