Key points
- We describe 35 cases of submandibular degloving, a recently encoded
technique for submandibular sialoadenectomy in benign pathology
- Malignancy has been reliably excluded through clinical assessment and
fine needle aspiration cytology
- It is based on blunt subfascial supracapsular dissection in order to
spare fascia along with facial vessels and marginalis
mandibulae nerve (MMN) within
- No recurrences have been recorded
- The rate of injury to the nerves at risk (MMN, lingual, hypoglossal)
is lower than what reported in the literature for the “classical”
transcervical and transoral techniques