The most important diseases or complications that can be caused by sialolithiasis (salivary stone disease) are:
Skin and subcutaneous (L00-L99).
- Extraoral (“outside the oral cavity“) fistulization.
Cardiovascular system (I00-I99)
- Pericarditis (inflammation of the pericardium) in superinfection of sialolithiasis with staphylococci and scattering.
Infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99).
- Dissemination of pathogenic agents in the blood and lymphatic circulation in bacterial superinfection of sialolithiasis.
Mouth, esophagus (food pipe), stomach, and intestines (K00-K67; K90-K93).
- Abscess formation (formation of a pus cavity).
- Ascending (ascending) purulent sialadenitis.
- Chronification: permanent glandular induration/swelling.
- Irreversible damage to the ductal system
- Irreversible damage of the glandular parenchyma.
- Salivary gland fistula
- Salivary duct fistula
- Stenosis (narrowing)
Psyche – nervous system (F00-F99; G00-G99)
- Frey syndrome (synonyms: Auriculotemporal syndrome; Gustatory sweating; Gustatory hyperhidrosis; abnormally marked sweating in circumscribed skin areas of the face and neck triggered during the consumption of any food or during gustatory (i.e., taste) stimuli such as candy sucking, biting, chewing, tasting – as a postoperative or postinflammatory complication (gl. parotis/parotid gland)).
- Facial nerve paresis (paralysis) as a postoperative complication (gl. parotis).
- Facial nerve irritation [rare, with deep infiltration of a purulent parotitis/salivary gland].
- Damage to the lingual nerve caused by extirpation (surgical removal) of the submandibular gland
- Damage to the ramus marginalis mandibulae of the facial nerve by extirpation of the submandibular gland
- Damage to the hypoglossal nerve by extirpation of the submandibular gland
Symptoms and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings not elsewhere classified (R00-R99).
- Dry mouth (xerostomia).
