Your salivary glands produce saliva and empty it into your mouth through slots called ducts. When these ducts become blocked, they can't produce enough saliva to moisten your food for proper eating.

Salivary gland obstruction results in pain and swelling in the cheek or under the jawline while eating, and foul-tasting drainage into the mouth. Such obstruction can also progress to severe infection ...

This is usually temporary and lasts from a few weeks to a couple of months. Minor salivary gland cancer can occur in your lips, tongue, roof of the mouth (palate), inner cheek, throat, voice box ...

First bite syndrome is an uncommon condition that presents itself with a sudden pain, cramp, or spasm around the parotid salivary glands in the ... or a spasm in the mouth and specifically the ...