Drug – bio-affecting and body treating compositions – Dentifrices
Reexamination Certificate
2001-12-21
2003-02-25
Seidel, Marianne C. (Department: 1614)
Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions
Dentifrices
C424S052000, C424S058000, C424S600000, C106S035000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06524559
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a tooth coating composition to be applied over teeth for increasing the effects in dental health and/or beautiful appearance.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Hitherto, for the purposes of improving the beauty and the health of teeth, various tooth coating compositions have been developed and have been on the market. These tooth coating compositions are required to have the performance such as the safety for the human body, the dispersibility of pigment, the hiding power for covering the blackish portions of teeth, the aesthetic property of the luster of the coat, being hard to cause changes with the passage of time, the easiness of removal of the coat, etc.
Recently, the quality of the products of this kind has been increased, the properties such as the safety, the dispersibility of pigment, the hiding power, the luster, being hard to cause changes with the passage of time, and the easiness of removing the coat are a matter of course, and it is a real situation that the products having the quick drying property capable of finishing coating in a shorter time and the more improved durability in addition to the above-described properties have been more demanded from the consuming public.
Now, as the tooth coating composition, the following techniques are known.
That is, the techniques using a shellac resin as the main constituent, such as the composition comprising an alcohol solution of a shellac resin compounded with a substrate improving agent such as a fish flake paste, etc., a pigment such as titanium oxide, etc.,. and a white turbid preventing agent such as methyl salicylate, etc. (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 17822/1995), the composition containing shellac, cellulose ether, a solvent (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 203942/1998), the composition comprising an alcohol solution of a shellac resin containing propolis, etc., (Japanese Patent No. 3069540), etc., are the mainstream.
These tooth coating compositions are developed for the purposes of mainly finishing beautifully by covering discolored teeth to put a graze thereon-or preventing the occurrence of the dental caries of teeth, etc., and some of these tooth coating compositions are on the market.
However, the tooth coating composition described in Japanese Patent No. 3069540 has a quick drying property but is very poor in the durability, in the tooth coating composition described in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 17822/1995, the hardness and the durability of the coat are improved by compounding a fish flake paste as a substrate-improving agent but on the contrary, the drying property of the coat becomes inferior, and the tooth coating composition described in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 203942/1998 has the faults that the composition is lacking in the drying property, and the coat becomes gradually white turbid with the passage of time to deteriorate the appearance.
In the tooth coating composition using shellac as the base, fundamentally, when the content of solid components such as a resin component, etc., is less, a solvent is liable to volatilize and drying of the coat itself is quickened. However, when the content of resin components is less, the coat is thin and the durability thereof is weakened. Thus, it was tried to reduce the content of resin components and compounding a suitable amount of fish flakes or titanium oxide with a tooth coating composition as the durability-strengthening agent of the coat, but although the drying property was very good, the durability could not satisfy the demand.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Accordingly, an object of the invention is to provide a tooth coating composition having a quick drying property as demanded by general consumers and being excellent in the durability while having the merits of tooth coating compositions of prior art.
As the result of making intensive investigations in view of the above-described circumstances, the present inventors have found that by using specific mica titanium for a tooth coating composition using shellac as the main body, a tooth coating composition, which does not become white turbid for a long time, has a quick drying property, and is excellent in the durability, is obtained and have accomplished the present invention.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
Then, the present invention described below in detail.
Shellac used in the invention is a resin, which has actual results of being used for foods and has a very high safety. In the tooth coating composition of the invention, the shellac is used as a coat-forming component. The content of such a shellac in the total composition is preferably in the range of from 1% by weight to 20% by weight. When the content of shellac is less than 1% by weight, the coat is too brittle and thus the composition cannot be used as a tooth coating composition. Also, when the content thereof exceeds 20% by weight, the viscosity of the coating liquid is increased, whereby it becomes difficult to thinly coat the composition on teeth and also the drying property becomes inferior. The particularly preferred content of shellac is from 5% by weight to 15% by weight.
In addition to shellac as the coat-forming component, one kind or a combination of two or more kinds of other resins, high molecular materials, and dental cements can be added to the composition at a suitable amount. By adding such material(s), the preferred effects of more improving the luster of the coat and more improving the dispersion of mica titanium or pigments can be expected.
Examples of such a resin include an acrylic resin, a vinyl acetate resin, an alkyd resin, a vinyl chloride resin, a silicone resin, a fluorine resin, rosin, etc.
Examples of the high molecular material include vinylon, nylon, polyvinyl alcohol, polyvinyl pyrrolidone, polyvinyl butyral, polybutene, polyethylene, polypropylene, polyisoprene, cellulose ethers, nitrocellulose, ester gum, viscose rayon, polysaccharide, etc.
Furthermore, examples of the dental cements include zinc phosphate cement, carboxylate cement, glass ionomer cement, zinc oxide euginol cement, silicate cement, etc.
Mica titanium is a substance obtained by coating a mica powder with a thin film of titanium oxide, and fundamentally has been frequently used as a pigment but in the invention, by compounding mica titanium as a coat-strengthening agent, the tooth coating composition excellent in the durability after coating is obtained. Also, by controlling the thickness of the titanium oxide film of the mica titanium, it is possible to obtain an interference color such as yellow, red, blue, green, etc., whereby the tooth coating composition giving a good aesthetic appearance is obtained.
The compounding amount of such a mica titanium in the whole composition is preferably from 0.5% by weight to 30% by weight. When the content of mica titanium is less than 0.5% by weight, the strength of the coat is lowered and the desired durability is not obtained. On the other hand, the content thereof exceeds 30% by weight, the dispersibility thereof in the solution becomes inferior, also, not only after coating, the evaporation of the solution is delayed to reduce the drying property, but also after coating, a rough-feeling sense of incongruity occurs in the mouth. Particularly preferred compounding amount of mica titanium is from 2% by weight to 15% by weight of the whole composition.
The mean particle size of mica titanium used in the invention is in the range of preferably from 5 &mgr;m to 50 &mgr;m, and more preferably from 10 &mgr;m to 30 &mgr;m. By using the mica titanium having the mean particle size of from 5 &mgr;m to 50 &mgr;m, a proper hiding power is imparted to the coat and further the using feeling in the mouth is improved.
As the main solvent of the tooth coating composition of the invention, a lower alcohol-base solvent dissolving shellac is used. As the solvent, which is nontoxic to the human body and dissolves well shellac, there are ethanol, n-propanol, isopropanol, n-butanol, isobutanol, etc., and from the points of the dissolving property and the volat
Inagaki Kenji
Tanaka Kichizo
Urai Kaoruko
Delacroix-Muirheid C.
Hanix Co., Ltd.
Seidel Marianne C.
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