Sialendoscopy

Sialendoscopy is a minimally invasive procedure to diagnose and treat salivary gland disorders including stones, strictures, chronic inflammation, and other problems affecting the major salivary glands. Doctors use a tiny endoscope to see and address problems inside the major salivary glands.

Sialendoscope is a good diagnostic tool for ductal pathology and unlike other radiological procedures findings of sialendoscopy correlate fairly with the symptomatology.

Sialendoscopy can be used both for diagnostic as well as therapeutic purposes and very often it can be done in a single sitting. Though it is also an invasive procedure, the morbidity associated with sialendoscopy is mostly minor and that too most of the time is temporary.