Antiplaque oral composition and method

US5912274A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Colgate-Palmolive Company · US

Inventors

• Orum Stringer · Yardley, US
• John Brahms · Piscataway, US
• Malathy Subramanian · Fremont, US
• Ernest Kelly · Wantage, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 25, 1997
• Grant date: Jun 15, 1999
• Expiry date: Mar 25, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C07C2603/26
• WIPO field: Pharmaceuticals
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

An oral antiplaque composition for treatment of teeth wherein the essential antiplaque agent is a substantially water insoluble noncationic antibacterial phenol containing, relative to the hydroxyl group, an alkyl or cycloalkyl group, preferably tert.-butyl (t-butyl), in the 2-position, and substituents in one or both of the 4- and 5-positions, one or both of which may be alkyl or cycloalkyl, one being preferably t-butyl.