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Shirley Gutkowski RDH - 29 Apr 2004 22:32 GMT

Hi all,
I'm writing a piece for an Australian dental magazine on Sjogren's and would
like to mention two of the major saliva producing medications here, there. I
don't want to mention them if they use something else, or don't use these down
there, Salagen and Evoxac.
Does anyone on this newsgroup know the answer to this, of know a good place to
find out the answer?

Shirley Gutkowski, RDH, BSDH
"Everbody wants to save the earth - nobody wants to help Mom to do the dishes."
- P. J. O'Rourke
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http://www.dentistry.com/poralhealth_02.asp

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Gregory Poon - 30 Apr 2004 00:17 GMT

Any cholinergic agonist could be used to stimulate salivation: there is
nothing special about Salagen and Evoxac other than that they were marketed
specificially as symptomatic treatment for xerostoma. Cholinergic agonists
are an "old" class of drugs. Before these targeted products were available,
people were using "ancient" drugs like bethanechol which is a cholinergic
agonist just like pilocarpine (Salagen but also a glaucoma med) and
cevimeline (Evoxac).

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Gregory M. K. Poon, Ph.D., R.Ph., B.Sc.Phm.
Departments of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Chemical Engineering
University of Toronto

> Hi all,
> I'm writing a piece for an Australian dental magazine on Sjogren's and would
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> http://www.dentistry.com/poralhealth_02.asp

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