**Meet the editor**

Dr. Işıl Adadan Güvenç was born in 1976 in İzmir, Turkey. After graduating from the American Collegiate Institute in İzmir, she received her medical degree at Hacettepe University, Faculty of Medicine, in 2000. She then specialized in otorhinolaryngology head and neck surgery at İzmir Atatürk Research and Training Hospital. Today, she works in Çiğli Regional Training

Hospital in İzmir as an associate professor in ENT. She is a fellow of the European Board of ORL-HNS, and has published 15 articles in respectable international journals and 11 articles in national journals. She is married to an architect and has an 8-year-old son.

Contents

**Preface VII**

Anahita Punj

**Management 37** Işıl Adadan Güvenç

**Diseases 49**

Chapter 4 **Salivary Diagnostics 51**

Goran Mitulović

Takahashi

**Section 1 Salivary Glands and its Diseases 1**

Chapter 1 **Secretions of Human Salivary Gland 3**

Chapter 2 **Xerostomia: An Update of Causes and Treatments 15** Alejandro Escobar and Juan P. Aitken-Saavedra

Chapter 3 **Sialorrhea: A Guide to Etiology, Assessment, and**

**Section 2 New Approaches in the Diagnosis of Salivary Gland**

Chapter 6 **Approach to Diagnosis of Salivary Gland Disease from Nuclear**

Michihiro Nakayama, Atsutaka Okizaki, Kaori Nakajima and Koji

Karolina Elżbieta Kaczor-Urbanowicz

Chapter 5 **Proteomics of the Salivary Fluid 67**

**Medicine Images 89**
