So what is buccal (pronounced ‘buckle’) fat? According to Dr. Konstantin Vasyukevich, a double-board certified plastic surgeon, buccal fat is a pouch of, well, fat, in your face that maintains volume ...

Articaine given only by buccal infiltration may not be as effective as lidocaine with standard infiltration and palatal injection for molar extractions. The study was recently published in the Journal ...