Imperial Chemical Industries Limited

John B Cantwell

Joseph F Jaworzyn

Jozef Nemcek

Martyn Humphries

John J Gerrard

Edward Charles Dart

James Rodney Traynor

Jozef Nemeck

Oral hygiene compositions effective for preventing the adherent deposition of cariogenic bacteria on teeth comprise as active constituents polymers having defined repeating units comprising hydrocarbyl groups with pendant carboxyl and pendant polyalkylene oxide groups in defined ratio. The polymers themselves, their preparation, and a process for treating teeth with the compositions are also claimed.

Oral hygiene compositions and polymers active therein

Oral hygiene compositions effective for preventing the adherent deposition of cariogenic bacteria on teeth comprise as active constituents polymers having defined repeating units comprising hydrocarbyl groups with pendant carboxyl and pendant polyalkylene oxide groups in defined ratio. The polymers themselves, their prepartion, and a process for treating teeth with the compositions are also claimed.

Photocurable dental filling compositions

A method of repairing teeth which comprises applying to the teeth a composition comprising (a) an inert, translucent, inorganic particulate filler (b) a polymerizable material comprising a polymerizable prepolymer containing at least two polymerizable ethylenically unsaturated groups and being the reaction product of a urethane prepolymer and a polymerizable ethylenically unsaturated monomer reactive with the urethane prepolymer; the urethane prepolymer being the reaction product of a diisocyanate and a diol; up to 100% by weight of the polymerizable prepolymer of a liquid ethylenically unsaturated monomer which is copolymerizable with the polymerizable prepolymer; and from 0.01 to 10% by weight of the polymerizable material of a photosensitive catalyst capable of curing the composition on exposure to visible light and comprising a photosensitizer selected from fluorenone and an .alpha.-diketone of the formula A.CO.CO.A, wherein the groups A are aliphatic, aromatic, cycloaliphatic, aralkyl or alkaryl, or together form a divalent aliphatic or aromatic group which together with the carbonyl groups forms a cyclic structure, and a reducing agent capable of reducing the photosensitizer when the photosensitizer is in an excited state, and curing the composition by irradiating the composition with visible radiation in the range 400 m.mu. to 500 m.mu..

Method of repairing teeth using a composition which is curable by

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John B Cantwell