The buccal fat pad is a trilobed collection of adipose tissue found in the midface. It is located behind the zygomatic arch, medial to the masseter muscle and lateral to the buccinator muscle from which it derives its name.1–4 It consists of a body and four processes: the buccal, pterygoid, superficial, and deep temporal.1–3 The body lies behind the zygomatic arch and the processes extend from ...

The encouraging results of percutaneous abscess drainage (PAD) in simple intra-abdominal abscesses have led us to employ this method in patients with more complex abdominal inflammatory disease, such as those with multiple enteric communicating or multilocular abscesses and patients in whom the percutaneous approach requires puncture routes traversing uninvolved organs. Cure was achieved in 74 ...

Traumatic herniation of the buccal fat pad is a rare traumatic disease. Treatment consists of either excision or replacement. We herein report the first case in which a traumatic herniation of the buccal fat pad healed naturally. It was necessary to differentiate the disease from lipoblastoma. A 17-month-old boy was admitted to a clinic with an intraoral tumor that had suddenly increased in siz...

PURPOSE To report the closure of oroantral communications with the pedicled buccal fat pad in a series of patients, and to determine the level of patient satisfaction after the surgery. STUDY DESIGN A prospective study of patients diagnosed of unilateral or bilateral oroantral communication (OAC) closed using the buccal fat pad between May 2012 and January 2013 was performed. Data analysis ex...

An experiment was conducted on broiler chickens to study the effects of different dietary fats (Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), fish oil, soybean oil, or their mixtures, as well as palm oil, as a more saturated fat), with a as fed dose of 7% for single fat and 3.5 + 3.5% for the mixtures, on Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors (PPARs) gene expression and its relation with body fat depos...

Indian River male broiler chickens growing from 7 to 30 d of age were fed on diets containing crude protein levels ranging from 120 to 300 g/kg plus 0 or 1 mg triiodothyronine (T3)/kg diet. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of these treatments on lipogenesis after a common diet was fed (180 g crude protein/kg diet from 30 to 56 d of age). Dietary treatment groups were sampled...