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I broke down and went to UMC. It wasn’t a salivary stone at all. Mea culpa. I was wrong. Instead, I have been told that apparently the entire lower half of my skull consists of four severly impacted wisdom teeth. One has punctured my maxillary sinus. Another is disrupting the movement of my jawbone. And […]

Topicane 4% lidocaine topical anaesthetic: $16.50 Disposable pocket scalpel: $0.69 Medical precision tweezers: $4.33 Sterile sutures: $10.00 Information from the Web on various procedures to remove stone from Wharton’s duct: free Not having to pay some retard doctor $2500 for an hour’s worth of simple surgical procedure? Priceless. [Update: No, I’m not really going to […]

So I definitely have a blocked sublingual gland. I’ve been alleviating the symptoms by…well, you don’t want to know. I seem to have a salivary calculus, or stone, in my sublingual gland under my tongue. I’ve been trying to dislodge it (which is ungodly painful), but I think it’s too big. (This just happens sometimes, […]

I have what is either an infected sublingual gland or cancer. (It’s like a big sore lump under my tongue.) All the medical info I can find suggests the former — sublingual glands occasionally get the equivalent of kidney stones that block them and fill them to bursting with saliva — which is sort of […]