Sour Salivary Stones: Sialolithiasis

It’s another long night in pod A, but luckily there is a break in the unending stream of patients. You head to your favorite green delicatessen and feeling adventurous, you pick up a bag of sour candy. So sour! Your brain instantly flashes back to the last time you prescribed sour candy as your memory-sensory axonal connections are triggered. The image of that 45 year-old man with 5 days of recurrent pain in the lower right of the mouth that was worse with eating is as clear as day. Who knew candy can be medicine? (more…)