13. What are the five most common aetiologies of inflammation of the salivary glands?
Correct answer: (1) Calculus. (2) Chronic recurrent sialadenitis. (3) Acute bacterial infection. (4) Mumps. (5) Mikulicz’s syndrome.
12. What are the two surgical conditions of the salivary glands?
Correct answer: The two principal surgical conditions of the salivary glands are inflammation, with or without calculus, and neoplasm.
11. What is Wharton’s duct?
Correct answer: This is the duct by which the submandibular gland communicates with the mouth.
10. How does the sublingual gland communicate with the mouth?
Correct answer: The sublingual gland’s mucus secretion drains by a series of very short ducts into the floor of the mouth.
9. Where does Wharton’s duct enter the mouth?
Correct answer: Via a papilla at the base of the frenulum of the tongue.
8. Via which duct does the submandibular gland enter the mouth?
Correct answer: Via Wharton’s duct.
7. How does the submandibular duct communicate with the mouth?
Correct answer: Wharton’s duct opens on the floor of the mouth through a papilla at the base of the frenulum of the tongue.
6. Where does Stensen’s duct open into the mouth?
Correct answer: Adjacent to the second upper molar tooth.
5. Via which duct does the parotid gland open into the mouth?
Correct answer: Via Stensen’s duct.
4. How does the parotid gland open into the mouth?
Correct answer: Via a long duct called the Stensen’s duct opening adjacent to the second upper molar tooth.
