FIELD: medicine, surgery. SUBSTANCE: at traditional treating benign tumors and chronic productive inflammatory processes in submandibular salivary gland the latter should be totally removed. Such a procedure leads to defected function of removed organ and other disadvantages, so the given method deals with making a cut parallel to a large hornlet of hyoid bone, the own capsule of submandibular salivary gland is opened and only its lower lobe is removed, fascial case for the rest of two lobes of submandibular salivary gland is formed from the upper and lower leaves of a cut main cervical fascia. EFFECT: higher efficiency to keep function of submandibular salivary gland, to exclude possibility for the damage of marginal branch of facial arteries and vein, to decrease traumaticity of operation and improve cosmetic results.
