"Stopping the denture cream use was a key part of her treatment," said Nardin. Isaacs said that for at least 10 years she applied Super Poligrip to her dentures once a day and kept them in overnight.

When he began getting weak, 61-year-old Ronald Beaver figured he might just be feeling his age. Eventually his problem was traced to a serious blood disorder caused by low levels of copper. "I ...

The Food and Drug Administration suggested that manufacturers consider taking zinc out of denture cream, following reports of neurological problems that might be associated with zinc poisoning ...

Because denture cream contains zinc, and all of the patients habitually used "extremely large amounts," Nations and her team propose that excess denture cream use led to their neurological problems.

Unlike denture adhesive cream, powder covers the entirety of the surface that connects with tissue. But like cream, denture powder works well on properly-fitting dentures, says Barzilay.

Ancient Egyptians around the 4th century AD are the first documented people to devise a dental cream recipe. At the beginning of the 1800s, soap was added to toothpaste as a cleaning agent and to ...