Title:
PERSONAL ORAL HYGIENE COMPOSITION AND DEVICE
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO2002026078
Kind Code:
A8
Abstract:
This invention provides a dental hygiene system, incidentally attractive to children, based on a free-flow "toothpaste" composition in the form of a plurality of beads each having substantially impervious walls; each portion or bead including about enough toothpaste for an average cleaning procedure. Bead consistency, flavour, colour, shape, or size, can be varied, for sale as mixtures or as single kinds. A toothbrush having a handle modified with one or more internal cavities (one holding oral hygiene tables; the other holding dental hygiene beads) is included in the system. Preferred bead manufacture involves formation in a mould and selective drying of the bead wall. The novel toothpaste makes a substantial contribution to reduction of environmental waste (no waste tubes) and allows the manufacture and distribution of single-unit kits for oral and especially dental hygiene.
Inventors:
ALEXANDER CARL ERNEST (GB)
Application Number:
PCT/IB2001/002772
Publication Date:
December 07, 2006
Filing Date:
July 31, 2001
Export Citation:
Assignee:
ALEXANDER CARL ERNEST (GB)
International Classes:
A46B11/00; A46B15/00; A61C19/06; A61K8/11; A61K8/65; A61K8/73; A61Q11/00
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