Very very woried post surgery - Will post daily updates of recovery

If only the mucosele was removed and not the sallivary gland that was "feeding" it, this gland will continue to squirt salliva into your wound. This doesn't heal by itself and you need to find a dental surgeon that knows about sallivary glands in the lip to remove the gland plus its duct (little pipe) too. The only other thing you could have, is infection of the wound, for it to swell up, but then you would be running a fever too. Please let us know when you've found a surgeon who successfully relieved you of this problem. I'm looking for one too. I have the opposite problem. I have 2 damaged sallivary gland ducts due to a sloppily performed jaw operation. A dental surgeon in Belgium finally removed the top sallivary gland and its duct just under the lower lip, but not the one next to it and left the mucocele inside too. So now the salliva from the 2nd duct is still being squirted into the muccele, but also into the operation wound which is hurting now too. A colleague of mine, who grew up in England, said: "try England". But I don't know how and where to start looking, finding and communicating with the right specialist and don't know if they'll accept my EU health insurance card over there. Also, it looks like there are very few dental surgeons that know where the salliva glands in the front of the mouth are situated and how their ducts run, to excise them successfully. It seems an area of medicine that only very few doctors know about or are interested in. However, the gland and duct that was taken out in my case just under the lower lip was quite big. Not microscopical, like some said. The gland had a diameter of 1/2 cm and the duct was like 3 cm long, with a diameter of about 1/8th of a centimetre. So easily visible. The surgeon said it's impossible that there's another one below it, that I still feel squirting liquid. But maybe it's one of this one's minor sallivary glands around it? I've read about that on internet. The mucocele is still in there and still being "fed" because it swells up every evening and it hurts like hell because it's inside my jaw flesh, which gets expanded by the pressure and I can feel it tear regularly. Maybe we can help each other?

Heh drop me an email at jayesh_performance@hotmail.com and I can give you the details of my surgeon.

As an update - I went back today and he says the healing is coming along just fine and what I am experiencing is normal. This guy is a proffessor specialising in Salivary glands so even though i'm quite stressed out, he seems to have calmed me down a lot.

With regards to the EU insurance - not sure about that as I went private. It truly is amazing how annoying these mucoceles can be and the ongoing problems they can cause.