The aim of this study was to formulate buccal mucoadhesive nanoparticles (NPs) using the natural mucoadhesive polymers. The natural mucoadhesive polymers chitosan (CS) and dextran sulfate sodium salt (DS) were used to prepare mucoadhesive NPs using the ionic gelation method. As the molecular weight of DS decreased, the amount of mucin and the number of buccal cells adsorbed on DS increased. The...

Development and evaluation of Meloxicam solid dispersion loaded buccal patchesMohammed Jafar, Sadath Ali

Introduction/Objective. Orthodontic extrusion is the procedure for moving teeth in a vertical, coronal direction. This movement induces changes periodontal ligament and production of new alveolar bone. The objective study was to determine on buccal, palatal interdental bone as result orthodontic extrusion. Methods. Experimental group included six patients who received treatment with fixed appli...

Changes in the positions, shapes and movements of the feeding apparatus (buccal mass) of the marine mollusc Aplysia californica were studied in intact, transilluminated juveniles. The buccal mass assumes characteristic shapes as its internal structure, the radula/odontophore, moves anteriorly (protracts) or posteriorly (retracts). These shapes are especially distinctive when the radula/odontoph...

The aim was to correlate alveolar bone loss in the buccal/palatal and the mesial/distal surfaces of upper molars in rats. Thirty-three, 60-day-old, male Wistar rats were divided in two groups, one treated with alcohol and the other not treated with alcohol. All rats received silk ligatures on the right upper second molars for 4 weeks. The rats were then euthanized and their maxillae were split ...

INTRODUCTION Physicians who perform urethroplasty have varying opinions about when the urinary catheter should be removed post-operatively, but research on this subject has not yet appeared in the literature. We performed voiding cystourethrogram (VCUG) on our anterior urethroplasty patients on days 3 (anastomotic) and 7 (buccal) in an effort to determine the earliest day for removal of the ure...

BACKGROUND This open-label, single-arm study was conducted to evaluate the long-term safety and efficacy of a novel buprenorphine formulation, buprenorphine buccal film, in the treatment of moderate-to-severe chronic pain requiring around-the-clock opioids. METHODS The primary purpose of this study was to evaluate the long-term safety and tolerability of buprenorphine buccal film. Five hundre...

A combination of biocytin back-fills of the cerebral-buccal connectives and immunocytochemistry of the cerebral ganglion demonstrated that of the 13 bilateral pairs of cerebral-buccal interneurons in the cerebral ganglion, a subpopulation of 3 are immunopositive for the peptide myomodulin. The present paper describes the properties of two of these cells, which we have termed CBI-8 and CBI-9. CB...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study is to assess the diurnal variation of gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase (GGT) during 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene (DMBA)-induced hamster buccal pouch carcinogenesis. MATERIALS AND METHODS The right buccal pouches of 108 Syrian golden hamsters, divided into three experimental groups, were treated three times weekly with 0.5% DMBA in mineral oil over an 11-w...