{"id":2554,"date":"2016-05-10T08:03:50","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T15:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynewsmile.com\/blog\/?p=2554"},"modified":"2016-05-05T18:12:47","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T01:12:47","slug":"salivary-gland-stone-toothache","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mynewsmile.com\/blog\/salivary-gland-stone-toothache\/","title":{"rendered":"Is this a salivary gland stone or a toothache?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"responsive-post-content\">\n<div class=\"post-left-column\">\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">We thank our advertisers who help fund this site.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><!-- MyNewSmile sidebar tall --> <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 300px; height: 600px;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4419877247826466\" data-ad-slot=\"6363395985\"><\/ins><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-right-column\">\n<p>Dr. Hall,<br \/>\nI had a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynewsmile.com\/amalgam_fillings.htm\" target=\"_blank\">mercury filling<\/a> replaced in my bottom back tooth closest to the ear. Now pain develops and radiates into my ear. Before the filling I was experiencing the same discomfort with some earache. My ear is good. The doctor suggested I have a salivary gland stone. I tend to believe it&#8217;s a dental problem.<br \/>\n&#8211; Bruce from Nova Scotia<\/p>\n<p>Bruce,<br \/>\nA salivary gland stone? That seems like a stretch for your situation.<br \/>\nYou can get calicifications in your salivary gland ducts, but the pain would not radiate to your ear. It would be in the soft tissue, in one of your salivary gland ducts, if you had pain. A couple of those ducts are under the tongue, and one is in the middle of each cheek. A salivary gland stone will cause swelling in that duct when you eat and maybe pain, and it would show up on an x-ray.<br \/>\nNo, pain radiating to your ear sounds very much like a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynewsmile.com\/dental\/toothache.htm\" target=\"_blank\">toothache<\/a>. And if you have had a recent filling in a lower molar on that side, that would be the first tooth to check.<br \/>\nI would get a second opinion.<br \/>\n&#8211; Dr. Hall<\/p>\n<p>Do you have a comment? We&#8217;d love to hear from you. Enter your comment below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: currentColor; width: 450px; height: 80px; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mynewsmile.com&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Click here to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynewsmile.com\/askdr.htm\"> ask Dr. Hall<\/a> a question of your own.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We thank our advertisers who help fund this site. Dr. Hall, I had a mercury filling replaced in my bottom back tooth closest to the ear. Now pain develops and radiates into my ear. Before the filling I was experiencing the same discomfort with some earache. My ear is good. The doctor suggested I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[774,773,772,771,345,66],"class_list":["post-2554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-pain-in-teeth","tag-calcifications-in-salivary-glands","tag-ear-pain","tag-mercury-filling","tag-salivary-gland-stone","tag-second-opinion","tag-toothache","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Is this a salivary gland stone or a toothache? - Cosmetic Dentistry Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mynewsmile.com\/blog\/salivary-gland-stone-toothache\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Is this a salivary gland stone or a toothache? - Cosmetic Dentistry Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We thank our advertisers who help fund this site. Dr. Hall, I had a mercury filling replaced in my bottom back tooth closest to the ear. Now pain develops and radiates into my ear. Before the filling I was experiencing the same discomfort with some earache. My ear is good. The doctor suggested I have [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.mynewsmile.com\/blog\/salivary-gland-stone-toothache\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Cosmetic Dentistry Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-05-10T15:03:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"David A. Hall\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"David A. Hall\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Is this a salivary gland stone or a toothache? - Cosmetic Dentistry Blog","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.mynewsmile.com\/blog\/salivary-gland-stone-toothache\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Is this a salivary gland stone or a toothache? - Cosmetic Dentistry Blog","og_description":"We thank our advertisers who help fund this site. Dr. Hall, I had a mercury filling replaced in my bottom back tooth closest to the ear. Now pain develops and radiates into my ear. Before the filling I was experiencing the same discomfort with some earache. My ear is good. The doctor suggested I have [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.mynewsmile.com\/blog\/salivary-gland-stone-toothache\/","og_site_name":"Cosmetic Dentistry Blog","article_published_time":"2016-05-10T15:03:50+00:00","author":"David A. Hall","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"David A. Hall","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.mynewsmile.com\/blog\/salivary-gland-stone-toothache\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.mynewsmile.com\/blog\/salivary-gland-stone-toothache\/"},"author":{"name":"David A. Hall","@id":"https:\/\/www.mynewsmile.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/60d45e438b269f3691398d223c943d75"},"headline":"Is this a salivary gland stone or a toothache?","datePublished":"2016-05-10T15:03:50+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.mynewsmile.com\/blog\/salivary-gland-stone-toothache\/"},"wordCount":244,"commentCount":0,"keywords":["calcifications in salivary glands","ear pain","mercury filling","salivary gland stone","second opinion","toothache"],"articleSection":["Pain in teeth"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.mynewsmile.com\/blog\/salivary-gland-stone-toothache\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.mynewsmile.com\/blog\/salivary-gland-stone-toothache\/","url":"https:\/\/www.mynewsmile.com\/blog\/salivary-gland-stone-toothache\/","name":"Is this a salivary gland stone or a toothache? - Cosmetic Dentistry Blog","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.mynewsmile.com\/blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2016-05-10T15:03:50+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.mynewsmile.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/60d45e438b269f3691398d223c943d75"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.mynewsmile.com\/blog\/salivary-gland-stone-toothache\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.mynewsmile.com\/blog\/salivary-gland-stone-toothache\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.mynewsmile.com\/blog\/salivary-gland-stone-toothache\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.mynewsmile.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Is this a salivary gland stone or a toothache?"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.mynewsmile.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.mynewsmile.com\/blog\/","name":"Cosmetic Dentistry Blog","description":"Cosmetic and General Dentistry Questions Answered","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.mynewsmile.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.mynewsmile.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/60d45e438b269f3691398d223c943d75","name":"David A. Hall","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4615c869fad982a8b037801e6bd5181b104e67228b9c0525d2ad490de1e7b78e?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4615c869fad982a8b037801e6bd5181b104e67228b9c0525d2ad490de1e7b78e?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4615c869fad982a8b037801e6bd5181b104e67228b9c0525d2ad490de1e7b78e?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"David A. Hall"},"description":"Dr. David A. Hall was one of the first 40 accredited cosmetic dentists in the world. He practiced cosmetic dentistry in Iowa, and in 1990 earned his accreditation with the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry. He is now president of Infinity Dental Web, a company in Mesa, Arizona that does advanced internet marketing for dentists.","sameAs":["https:\/\/www.infinitydentalweb.com"]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynewsmile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynewsmile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynewsmile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynewsmile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynewsmile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynewsmile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2556,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynewsmile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions\/2556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynewsmile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynewsmile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynewsmile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}