Dental compositions containing silica microbeads
OwnerRobert L. Karlinseyinventor
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Abstract
A method for decreasing dental hypersensitivity, including sizing a plurality of non-functionalized microbeads to be between 0.01 μm to 3 μm in diameter, suspending the plurality of non-functionalized microbeads in a fluid matrix to define a dental delivery compositon, introducing the dental delivery composition into an oral cavity, introducing respective non-functionalized microbeads into a dental tubule, adhering respective functionalized microbeads each other and to the dental tubule to define an aggregate, and occluding the dental tubule with the aggregate.
Claims19
A dental system, comprising:
- a dental prophy powder;
- and
- a plurality of generally spherical metal oxide microspheres generally homogeneously dispersed in the dental prophy powder;
- wherein each respective microsphere is between about 0.01 micron and about 10 microns in diameter.
A dental polishing system, comprising:
- a prophy composition portion;
- and
- a silica microsphere portion homogenouely mixed with the prophy compositon portion to define an admixture;
- wherein each respective silica microsphere is between about 0.9 micron and about 3 microns in diameter.
A dental hypersensitivity and whitening system, comprising:
- a plurality of generally spherical inorganic microbeads;
- and
- a prophy polish delivery medium;
- wherein the plurality of generally spherical inorganic microbeads are homogeneously suspended in the prophy polish delivery medium to define a prophy delivery composition.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.