Abstract: Objective To study the characteristics and tendency of incidence of salivary gland tumors during the past 28 years and to provide information for clinicians and pathologists.Methods The data of tumors in salivary gland were collected from General Hospital and the Second Hospital of Tianjin Medical University.The data were stored in Excel and were analyzed by Spss11.5.Results The incidence of salivary gland tumors was increasing during the past 28 years.The relative ratio of male to female was 1.030∶1.The ratio of the benign cases to the malignant ones was 4.795∶1.Benign tumors are more in age of 40-, 50-, and malignant tumors are more in age of 50-, 60-.The parotid gland(70.94%)was the most common location of salivary gland tumors.Pleomorphic adenoma(69.34%)and adenoid cystic carcinomas(35.90%)were the most frequent benign and malignant tumors, respectively.Conclusion The incidence of salivary gland benign and malignant tumors were increasing during the past 28 years.The parotid gland was the most common location both of benign and malignant salivary gland tumors.Pleomorphic adenoma was the most common histological type in the salivary gland.