17 June 2025

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CDM Faculty Member Louis Mandel Publishes Exhaustive Reference on Salivary Gland Disorders

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Dr. Louis Mandel, who has served as a professor of oral and maxillofacial surgery at Columbia University College of Dental Medicine since 1951, has published Clinical Management of Salivary Gland Disorders, a complete reference guide for the totality of salivary gland disease.

Dr. Mandel is currently the director of the Salivary Gland Center at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. He received both his dental degree and his training in oral and maxillofacial surgery from Columbia University and is a Diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. Dr. Mandel, an expert in the field with more than six decades of clinical experience, has lectured extensively both nationally and internationally, and has more than 100 publications on salivary gland pathology.

Achieving an accurate salivary gland disorder diagnosis involves the use of multiple clinical tools —history, physical examination, imaging, serology, biopsy etc. Mandel says that the impetus for the work came from the realization that there was a need for a reference that reviewed and updated the available data concerning all manner of salivary gland conditions. Clinical Management of Salivary Gland Disorders focuses on the clues available to the practitioner during the patient examination. Looking beyond the perspectives of surgery, imaging, pathology, or sialendoscopy in diagnosis and therapy, Mandel says that this work provides extensive and detailed diagnostic information about each salivary gland entity. The indication for and significance of each of these investigative procedures is discussed, integrated and photographically illustrated in tandem with the diagnostic review of the relevant salivary gland entity. Besides a diagnostic review of readily diagnosed salivary gland entities (Sjogren’s, sialolithiasis, infection etc.), the book covers subjects the diagnoses of which have been inadequately described (juvenile recurrent parotitis, sarcoid, radioactive iodine for thyroid cancer, pediatric Sjogren’s, etc.) or never reviewed (middle ear surgery and saliva, Stensen’s duct dilatation, first bite syndrome, HIV paraparotid fat, etc.) in other published texts. It will be organized by diagnosis.

An exhaustive resource for the field of salivary gland complaints, Clinical Management of Salivary Gland Disorders will be of use to otolaryngologists, head/neck surgeons, plastic surgeons, oral medicine/oral pathology practitioners and residents, oral and maxillofacial surgeons, and dentists. Internists concerned with physical diagnosis of head/neck problems, neuroradiologists concerned with relating imaging results to a clinical salivary gland condition and nurse practitioners and dental hygienists will also find this book most helpful.

Source: https://www.dental.columbia.edu/