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Bextra ®
Generic : Valdecoxib
Active Ingredients :
Valdexocib
Highly selective cyclo-oxygenase (COX)-2 inhibitor with anti-inflammatory and analgesic properties.
Inactive Ingredients :
Lactose monohydrate, microcrystalline cellulose, pregelatinized starch, croscarmellose sodium, magnesium stearate, hydroxypropyl methylcellulose, polyethylene glycol, polysorbate 80, and titanium dioxide.
Pharmacologic Action :
>Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Agent
- Use in Dentistry :
Postoperative pain associated with surgery.
- Articles :
Fenton C, Keating GM, Wagstaff AJ.
Valdecoxib: a review of its use in the management of osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, dysmenorrhoea and acute pain.
(Drugs. 2004;64(11):1231-61.)
>Abstract
Christensen KS, Cawkwell GD.
Valdecoxib versus rofecoxib in acute postsurgical pain: results of a randomized controlled trial.
(J Pain Symptom Manage. 2004 May;27(5):460-70.)
>Full Text
Ormrod D, Wellington K, Wagstaff AJ.
Valdecoxib.
(Drugs. 2002;62(14):2059-71; discussion 2072-3.)
>Abstract
Desjardins PJ, Shu VS, Recker DP, Verburg KM, Woolf CJ.
A single preoperative oral dose of valdecoxib, a new cyclooxygenase-2 specific inhibitor, relieves post-oral surgery or bunionectomy pain.
(Anesthesiology. 2002 Sep;97(3):565-73.)
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