The buccal mucosa lines the inner cheek, and buccal formulations are placed in the mouth between the upper gingivae (gums) and cheek to treat local and systemic conditions. The buccal route provides one of the potential route for typically large, hydrophilic and unstable proteins, oligonucleotides and polysaccharides, as well as conventional small drug molecules. The oral cavity has been used a...

Background  Buccal fat pad is known as anatomic structure in between the masticatory muscles that separate these muscles from each other and surrounding bone. Ease of access, through the intraoral route makes it suitable choice for obtaining adipose derived stem cells. Methods  Intraoral incisions for getting access to the buccal fat of pad are; Retromolar incision, incision in medial of pt...

PURPOSE To evaluate the role of pretreatment and posttreatment expression in buccal mucosa cells of signal transduction proteins activated by epidermal growth factor receptor, including phosphorylated epidermal growth factor receptor (p-EGFR), phosphorylated mitogen-activated protein kinase (p-MAPK), and phosphorylated AKT (p-AKT), in predicting gefitinib activity in advanced non-small cell lun...

Verruca vulgaris also known as common warts is a benign lesion of skin and mucous membrane caused by human papilloma virus. Intraoral warts can occur at any age but are most commonly seen in age group of 30-50 years with equal incidence in both genders. It is found commonly on the palate followed by lip, tongue, buccal mucosa and rarely on gingiva. Conservative surgical excision with safe margi...

Pyogenic granuloma is thought to represent an exuberant tissue reaction to local irritation. It occurs in second decade of life in young females. Clinically, oral pyogenic granuloma is a smooth or lobulated exophytic growth, pedunculated or sessile, which usually bleeds on provocation. Oral pyogenic granuloma preferentially affects the gingiva. On rare occasion, it can be found extragingivally ...

INTRODUCTION Reconstruction of the oral cavity with a flap design containing the buccal mucosa and buccinator muscle but excluding the facial artery and vein is the topic of these case reports. CASE REPORTS This article uses random pattern vertically oriented partial thickness buccinator myomucosal flap for intraoral reconstruction in two cases. The first was for lining the mandibular anterio...

A solitary fibrous tumor is a relatively uncommon neoplasm that usually occurs in the pleura but occurs extremely rarely in the oral cavity. Reported herein is a rare case of a solitary fibrous tumor in the buccal cheek mucosa. A 50-year-old man visited the authors' hospital due to a buccal cheek mass whose size had increased. Excisional biopsy was done under local anesthesia. After the excisio...

Urethral stricture repair, irrespective of the underlying etiology, has been a challenge for urologic surgeons for decades. However, surgical techniques are continually evolving and the overall success rates keep improving. Focusing on bulbar urethroplasty, the most common causes in the industrialized countries are external trauma and prior instrumentation. Short bulbar urethral strictures meas...

BACKGROUND Cell-cycle disruption is the major characteristic features of neoplastic transformation and the status of cell-cycle regulators can thus be utilized to assess the prognostic significance in patients with cancer. The PCNA, cyclin D1, CDK4, CDK6 and survivin expression in the buccal mucosa was utilized to evaluate the Emodin efficacy on abnormal cell proliferation during 7,12-dimethylb...