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Alexis Question:  Hi there, this forum is fabulous. Thank you. I am so confused with dosing. How much is one gram of Biet in mL – milliliters. So confusing. I use a one mL syringe. One mL is a lot of cream. It is an eighty-twenty ratio and I will split the dose. Reading that your recommended starting dose is three milligrams, how much exactly is that in cream in terms of milliliters or MLs? That cannot be three MLs, that would be three syringes. Sorry to be daft. I have tried to find the answer on Google but nothing is making sense to me. Maybe that is why I need bioidentical hormones. Anyway, Help. Thank you, Alexis. Short Answer:  1 gram is equal to 1 mL. A BHRT prescription can be written in either mg/gram or mg/mL. For example, when we call in prescriptions to a compounding pharmacy, let’s say the Biest prescription is 3 mg/gram with an 80/20 ratio. This is the same as 3 mg/mL with an 80/20 ratio. The instruction we give the patient is to apply 1/2 gram, twice per day. If the patient is using a Topi-Clic