Infections around your mouth or jaw muscles, such as a peritonsillar abscess, can affect the jaw's movement. When this happens, lockjaw can occur. In rare instances, your nerve or muscle can become ...

One of the important results of the present study was that relatively many subjects with no symptoms in the oropharyngeal area had one or more tonsilloliths (46.1%). Some investigators have also ...

Background: Recent studies suggest that tonsilloliths are clinically related to halitosis and tonsillar abscess. Based on our empirical knowledge, tonsilloliths are relatively commonly encountered ...

The peritonsillar area was affected in 93 patients (33.8% ... while 208 patients (75.6%) underwent surgery for abscess drainage. Specific treatments included incision and drainage in 80 patients (29.1 ...