WebMD useless; school Nurse Practictioners clueless

first, let me thank you for this site - it has finally helped me to stop wondering what the heck i had been suffering from.

i was amazed at the dearth of information on this topic - a situation which surprisingly has only recently changed, no doubt thanks in part to this site. WebMD still has no idea what a mucocele is!

i had spent months of repeated visits to my university's student clinic (a low-cost service that is both the primary service provider for those on the school's health plan, and also for students in general, regardless of insurance coverage). the poor Nurse Practicioners there simply were confounded. we innocently wasted a few tens of dollars on herpes tests and lab cultures, still unsure of what was going on.

well, now that i know what it is, i'd like to ask - is surgical removal the only surefire way to reduce the reappearance of mucoceles? prior to the past few months, i had gotten them intermittently for several years with the frequency of maybe only once a month at worst. but starting in the past year, they've been relentless - i can barely think of a stretch of more than 3 or 4 days without one.