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Wednesday May 22nd 2013

People who use mobile phones drool and slobber more say researchers

Cell phone use increases the amount and flow of saliva, suggesting that frequent cell phone users slobber more, dental researchers claim.

Indian researchers from the Vidhya Shikshan Prasark Mandal’s Dental College and Research Center, looked into how heat and radio frequency emitted from cell phones can affect adjacent tissues by observing parotid glands, or saliva producing glands in the jaw, of heavy cell phone users.

Read more: Medical Daily

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