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Associate Professor Ray C. Williams and his research group have been studying the drug, flurbiprofen, in an attempt to treat periodontal disease--which causes bone loss around the teeth and inflammation of gum tissue...
...study showed that flurbiprofen can significantly slow the loss of bone around the teeth in patients with moderate to severe periodontal disease...
Like aspirin, ibuprofen and flurbiprofen are classified as non-steroidal, anti-inflammatory drugs which stop the swelling and redness of bodily injury...
...optimistic that flurbiprofen and other not yet tested, non-steroidal, anti-inflammatory drugs will prove to be an effective way of slowing down bone loss around the teeth." said Assistant Professor of Periodontology Ray C. Williams, who is conducting the research with Marjorie Jeffcoat, also an assistant professor of Periodontology...
...Flurbiprofen and similar drugs block one of the enzymes that are necessary for all this to happen. And the researchers think this is how the medicine preserved the dog's teeth...