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Understanding Your Salivary Glands’ Function
Discover how your salivary glands function, what problems can affect them, and how to treat salivary gland stones, dry mouth, and other conditions.
Discover how your salivary glands function, what problems can affect them, and how to treat salivary gland stones, dry mouth, and other conditions.
Mental health and dental health have more in common than we realize. Understanding the connection is critical to your overall health. PDM can help.
In this Penn Dental Medicine video and article, find out what dry mouth myths are busted and what dry mouth treatments could help.
What causes dry mouth can vary, but a wide range of effective treatment for dry mouth symptoms also exists. Find out how Penn Dental Medicine can help you.
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