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"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.

The companies say denture cream containing zinc is safe when used as directed. And the Food and Drug Administration, which regulates denture adhesives, has never issued any warnings about the ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Sep 5 - Loading up on denture cream can be hazardous to your health, new research suggests. In the journal Neurology, researchers from the University of Texas Southwestern ...

The most severe example he's seen, he says, involved a 63-year-old man who used large amounts of denture cream for 14 years. He went from a cane to a walker to a wheelchair in three months' time.

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.

Denture cream, Pepsi hard to come by for nursing home residents forced to live on $30 a month. Medicaid's personal needs allowance is meant to pay for anything not provided by the home — from a ...

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 ...