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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 1999
Filed:
Jul. 22, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Mahmoud Hassan, Piscataway, NJ (US);
Kyle N Brogden, Trenton, NJ (US);
Gary Durga, Edison, NJ (US);
Nagaraj S Dixit, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Robert L Mitchell, Somerset, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Colgate Palmolive Company, New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K / ; A61K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
424 49 ; 424 52 ; 424 57 ;
Abstract
A storage stable oral composition having a pH of 8 or more which is effective against calculus, the composition containing an orally acceptable vehicle prepared using a sorbitol humectant containing less than about 0.10% by weight of a reducing sugar there being incorporated in the vehicle an effective anticalculus amount a water soluble alkali metal polyphosphate anticalculus salt.