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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2014
Colgate-palmolive Company, New York, NY (US);
Lyndsay Schaeffer-Korbylo, Flemington, NJ (US);
Andre Michelle Morgan, Robbinsville, NJ (US);
Davide Miksa, Doylestown, PA (US);
Laurence Du-Thumm, Princeton, NJ (US);
Michael Prencipe, Princeton Junction, NJ (US);
Evangelia Arvanitidou, Princeton, NJ (US);
Gregory Szewczyk, Flemington, NJ (US);
Colgate-Palmolive Company, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
Disclosed are oral care compositions and the use of such oral care compositions for treating conditions caused by biofilm formation. Also disclosed are methods for inhibiting biofilm formation and/or degrading biofilm. The oral care composition includes a sesquiterpenoid and an antimicrobial agent, in which the sesquiterpenoid and the antimicrobial agent are present in an amount effective to inhibit and/or degrade a biofilm in the oral cavity.