This study is aimed to prove that a solid sialogogue can improve the defects of the liquid one and substitute it with no differences in the signal intensity. From January to August 2016, 60 patients with no salivary gland diseases were enrolled. The patients were divided into two groups as follows; a group with a liquid sialogogue and the other group with a solid sialogogue. MR images were acquired and signal intensities of the parotid glands were compared. As a result, the signal intensities of liquid and solid sialogogues showed no statistically significant differences(59.42±15.74 and 61.80±13.99, respectively) In conclusion, a solid sialogogue was verified to have no signal intensity differences from the liquid one while it could improve the defects of the liquid sialogogue..
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