However, the tonsils have small folds, or “crypts,” where bacteria and food can collect. This can create small, stone-like formations that doctors call tonsil stones or tonsilloliths.

are small white or yellow deposits on the tonsils. They develop when bacteria, saliva, food particles, and debris from cells lining the mouth get trapped in tiny indentations called crypts.

NEW BERLIN, Wis. (WTMJ) – An 11-year-old Wisconsin boy has spent over 50 days in the ICU after a tonsil surgery went wrong. Liam Klaver went in for a routine surgery to get his tonsils removed ...

NEW BERLIN, Wis. (WTMJ) – An 11-year-old Wisconsin boy has spent over 50 days in the ICU after a tonsil surgery went wrong. Liam Klaver went in for a routine surgery to get his tonsils removed back in ...

The earthly remains of most of history’s 266 popes over the past 1,961 years are buried in Rome, in dozens of crypts, catacombs, and cemeteries in, under, and around the city. This hole in the ...