Mealtime syndrome : An Enigma to Resolve

Introduction In humans, three pairs of major salivary glands and numerous minor salivary glands secrete saliva. Variety of pathological processes like inflammatory, infectious, obstructive, autoimmune, systemic and neoplastic disorders affects the salivary glands. Sialolithiasis is the second most common disease of the salivary glands after mumps. It is also the most common disease of submandibular glands in middle-aged adults. Sialolithiasis is estimated to affect 12 in 1000 of the adult population with males being affected almost twice as much as females, 1 and Children are very rarely affected. 2 Calculi size may vary from less than 10 mm to abnormally large up to 15 mm in size. 3