In Brief: Dental Products/Plaque subcommittee
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Dental Products/Plaque subcommittee: Speakers at the May 8-9 meeting will include: Warner-Lambert, presenting on Listerine; Procter & Gamble, which will talk about cetylpyridium chloride and address consumer perceptions of common terms; and Hershey, new owners of Leaf's Xylifresh xylitol-containing gum. Whitehall Oral Technologies, makers of the ingredient Microdent, also may present data. The subcommittee will discuss and vote on cetylpyridinium chloride, Microdent, sodium lauryl sulfate, C31G-Therasol, xylitol, sodium bicarbonate and combination hydrogen peroxide/sodium bicarb as anti-plaque ingredients. The subcommittee also will discuss the ingredient combinations hydrogen peroxide/povidone iodine and hydrogen peroxide/sodium citrate/zinc chloride/sodium lauryl sulfate. The meeting will be held at the Ramada Inn-Bethesda Ambassador Ballroom, 8400 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda, Md., from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days...