Get Up And Do Something: Pizza mouth burns soothed with dissolvable strips

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Pizza mouth burns soothed with dissolvable strips Oct 22nd 2012, 11:30 While at a conference in Chicago, Jason McConville was enjoying a slice of deep dish pizza when it happened: the molten cheese burned the roof of his mouth, causing excruciating pain, followed by that all-too-familiar tender, raw sensation for the next few days. "This has plagued humankind since we discovered fire, it seems. Since the first caveman cooked his turkey over an open fire [humans have burned their mouths]," he says. We've all been there -- biting into hot food or chugging a boiling drink then scalding our mouths. But McConville, an associate professor of pharmaceutical sciences at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, decided to do something about it. He designed a dissolvable mouth strip with the local anesthesia benzocaine, sometimes found in cough drops, and also used by dentists, to provide some pain relief. The strips resemble popular breath freshening strips and can be used to sooth burns for a few hours up to a few days.

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