"It's a tablet that you just stick on the gum and it releases an anti-fungal agent over the course of six to eight hours. Because the anti-fungal agent stays in the mouth, it provides the same relief as the oral medication but with few or no side effects." ...
The study compared the effectiveness and safety of taking 50 milligrams of a miconazole mucoadhesive buccal tablet once-daily to 10 milligrams of clotrimazole, a common anti-fungal pill five times a day. Of the 578 patients enrolled in the randomized study, 291 received the tablet and 287 received the clotrimazole pill."
Read more in EurekAlert!, September 14, 2009.
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