Welcome back to the podcast ladies and gentlemen. This week we're going to be continuing our series on It's the Small Things.

Now there are so many little organs and tiny little ducks in our body that can wreak havoc to our patients.

One of them is our sub-mandibular glands. That's right, they can become

super inflamed like the parrotic gland, or they can even develop stones. That's right,

you're sensing a trend here. We just finished with gall stones, and now this week we're going to be talking about

Silalathiasis, or stones that are within the salivary glands and salivary gland ducts.

This condition can be extremely painful and very problematic.

It's a little bit different than first bite syndrome,

which is basically you eat something super sour like a sour patch kid

and suddenly your parado glance squeezed down with the

force of a thousand sons and cause some idiopathic pain that resolves on its own.

I'm Dr. Niket Sunpol, your friendly-mabored internist and gastrantroologist, and

join me this week where we discuss Salabary Glan Stones. Now before we can discuss the stones and why they happen and more importantly what to do about them we have to do a little

bit of review of anatomy. Now there are several glands but the major ones are the ones that get stones.

This includes the parodid, the sub-bandibular, and the sub-lingual.

Now you know you have a minor salarabary gland, but the odds of that one getting a stone are pretty rare.

Now the parrotid gland flows saliva into your body through Stenson's duct.

These are located on the sides of the face and they're anterior to the external

auditory canal. They're right above your mandible and just below your zygomatic arch.

Now what you have to remember is that Stenson's duct arises from it and it's about 4 to 7

centimeters long and it's not that big, it's only two to three millimeters in diameter.

The submandibular gland empties into your body through Wharton's duct

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