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Reactive submandibular lymph nodes can persist with mild piorrhea?
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Perhaps, but: Pperhaps, but periodontal disease which is a gram negative anaerobic rod bacterial infection, does not frequently drain to the lymph nodes. More frequently, mandibular infections from an unhealthy tooth will drain to the lymph nodes (and breast) on the same side.
Answered 1/29/2015
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