Introduction: A local microneedle patch loaded with 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) was constructed to improve the efficiency of ALA photodynamic treatment of oral leukoplakia, reduce local photosensitivity reactions, and promote the healing of lesions.
Methods: The microneedle patch loaded with ALA was constructed with the hyaluronic acid (HA) solution (ALA-HAMN), and its morphology, strength, mucosal penetration, and biocompatibility were tested.
Results: In vivo safety and permeability tests confirmed that ALA-HAMN had good biocompatibility and could penetrate the mucosal barrier and quickly dissolve and release ALA for in situ transdermal administration. The 4-nitroquinoline oxide (NQO) rat model experiment showed that ALA-HAMN can significantly improve photodynamic therapy (PDT) efficiency and has no damage to mucosal tissue compared with the commonly used ALA cotton ball dressing.
Conclusions: The ALA-loaded microneedle patch was successfully constructed for the photodynamic treatment of oral leukoplakia, and the photodynamic efficiency and comfort of oral leukoplakia were improved, which provided an effective delivery mode to improve clinical ALA-PDT treatment of oral leukoplakia (OLK).
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Biomedicines
December 2024
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Dentistry, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia.
Oral potentially malignant disorders (OPMD) are a group of lesions carrying the risk of developing into cancer. The gold standard to predict which lesions are more likely to undergo malignant transformation is the presence of dysplasia histologically. However, not all dysplastic lesions progress, and non-dysplastic lesions may also undergo malignant transformation.
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January 2025
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery/Oral Pathology, Amsterdam University Medical Centre, Location Vrije Universiteit and Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA), Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Electronic address:
Objective: To assess the knowledge, attitude, and practice of Dutch dentists on oral leukoplakia (OL) and to what extent these aspects are related to whether or not dentists regularly monitor patients with OL.
Material And Methods: A self-developed questionnaire was distributed via a web survey among a sample of dentists participating in an intervision program. Of 1626 invited dentists, 437 (26.
Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol
December 2024
Oral Medicine Division, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil. Electronic address:
Objective: actinic cheilitis (AC) is a potentially malignant disorder of the lip vermillion. The study of effective therapeutic options is of the utmost importance to prevent the development of lip squamous cell carcinoma. This study aimed to evaluate the topical effect of imiquimod 5% (IM) and fludroxycortide (FC) 0.
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December 2024
Functional and Molecular Neuroimaging Unit, Bellaria Hospital, Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Objectives: The aim of the present study was to analyze the methylation status in patients who presented with an Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma (OSCC) concomitantly with multifocal Proliferative Verrucous Leukoplakia (PVL)(PVL-OSCC).
Methods: Nine patients with OSCC and concomitant PVL lesions were selected. Two brushing samples were collected simultaneously from OSCC and PVL lesions in contralateral mucosa from each patient.
Am J Otolaryngol
December 2024
Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, 72 E. Concord Street, Boston, MA 02118, USA; Department of Otolaryngology, Boston Medical Center, 800 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA 02118, USA. Electronic address:
Objective: This preliminary study tested whether non-invasive, remote Elastic Scattering Spectroscopy (ESS) measurements obtained in the oral cavity can be used as a proxy to accurately differentiate between patients with laryngeal cancer versus laryngeal leukoplakia.
Methods: 20 patients with laryngeal lesions [cancer (n = 10),leukoplakia (n = 10)] were clinically assessed and categorized by otolaryngologists per standard clinical practice. Patient demographics of age, race, sex, and smoking history were collected.
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