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Involvement of the salivary glands (principally the submandibular glands and the parotid glands), leads to poor saliva output. This in turn leads to a dry mouth – occasionally free of symptoms, but frequently troublesome (Fig. 3.1).
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Hughes, G., Sangle, S., Bowman, S. (2014). Mouth and Salivary Glands. In: Sjögren’s Syndrome in Clinical Practice. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06059-0_3
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