Key pointsWe describe 35 cases of submandibular degloving, a recently encoded technique for submandibular sialoadenectomy in benign pathologyMalignancy has been reliably excluded through clinical assessment and fine needle aspiration cytologyIt is based on blunt subfascial supracapsular dissection in order to spare fascia along with facial vessels and marginalis mandibulae nerve (MMN) withinNo recurrences have been recordedThe 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