Dermatology

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Compounding Corner Pharmacy offers a variety of compounded medications for dermatology. These preparations, especially hydroquinone, are thoroughly milled through an ointment mill.

Common dermatology treatments:

  • Bleaching creams/Melasma (Hydroquinone, Kojic acid, Tretinoin, Monobenzone, Hydrocortisone, Fluocinolone)
  • LPT (Lidocaine/Prilocaine/Tetracaine)
  • BLT (Benzocaine/Prilocaine/Tetracaine)
  • Nail fungus Solution (Itraconazole/Terbinafine/Thymol/Tolnaftate)
  • Warts (Salicylic acid 40% ointment)
Dermatology

Dermatology

ACCREDITED:

The Pharmacy Compounding Accreditation Board (PCAB) accreditation is the highest attainable accreditation in compounding pharmacy. Make no mistake, they are the highest standards in the nation and the most difficult to achieve. Compounding Corner Pharmacy is a FOUR-time PCAB-Accredited pharmacy for sterile and non-sterile compounding.

PCAB

PCAB

ACHC

ACHC

BBB

BBB

ENDORSED:

United States Pharmacopeia (USP) <795> and <797> are the actual standards that compounding pharmacies are held to. PCAB is endorsed by USP, the American Medical Association (AMA) and more than a dozen other organizations.

PROCESS VALIDATED:

How do you know it’s really in there? The FDA allows manufacturers a +/- 20% error (There are several narrow therapeutic index exceptions ). USP allows compounding pharmacies a +/-  10% error. We’ll let our potency testing speak for itself

MEDICATIONREPORTEDMEASUREDPOTENCY
Hydroquinone6%6.46%108%
Hydroquinone/Tretinoin/Hydrocortisone (HCQR 5%)5%/0.1%/1%5.34%/0.102%/1.088%106.8%/ 102%/ 108.8%

USP <797> states: “…compound preparations are to be prepared to ensure that each preparation shall contain not less than 90% and not more than 110% of the theoretically calculated and labeled quantity of an active ingredient…”. Potency determinations follow USP <621> HPLC, USP <851> Spectophotometry, and specific monograph testing procedures.

Compounding Corner Pharmacy is accredited by PCAB which is endorsed by:

  • The American Medical Association
  • The United States Pharmacopeia
  • The National Association of Boards of Pharmacy
  • The International Academy of Compounding Pharmacies
  • The American Pharmacists Association
  • The American College of Apothecaries
  • The National Community Pharmacists Association
  • The National Alliance of State Pharmacy Associations
  • The National Home Infusion Association
  • The American Veterinary Medical Association
  • The American Animal Hospital Association

Note: We will not compound any medications that are precluded from pharmacy compounding in accordance with 21 C.F.R. § 216.