Word: flurbiprofen
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Dates: during 1984-1984
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...study at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, volunteers will take a medicine called flurbiprofen Harvard researchers already have found that the drug can reduce bone loss around the teeth by 66 percent in dogs which are often used to study periodontal disease...
...Flurbiprofen is a more potent version of ibuprofen, which was approved in May for over the counter sales and was used in prescription form since 1974 to treat arthritis pain and other problems...
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...