Synopsis

Incidences of salivary gland diseases are relatively higher than we expect in practice. Understanding of salivary gland pathology is still not concluded, since the newer diagnostic techniques are evolving continuously, which dictate the modified approach to their management. Manual of Salivary Gland Diseases is confluence of the anatomy, physiology, pathology of salivary glands and their diagnosis and management.<br><br>There are few books available in the market on salivary gland tumors, but there is not a single book dealing with the entire salivary gland diseases and their management available at present. The book will be the first of this kind, to serve the postgraduates and teaching faculties in the field of oral pathology, oral medicine and oral surgery, and the practitioners and general surgeons.<br><br>Contributors for the book are stalwarts in their respective field with more than two decades of professional experience and made an attempt to the readers to understand the pathology and diagnosis through the basic sciences. A balance is maintained between the basics and the advanced concepts.<br><br>Clinical, histopathological photographs and an easy-to-understand line diagrams are added, wherever necessary.