Oxygen Alkaline Dental's Cleaners from Tooth Plaque, Food Debris, Stains of Blood, and Pus: A Narrative Review of the History of Inventions

Aleksandr Urakov; Natalia Urakova; Alexey Reshetnikov

doi:10.4103/jispcd.JISPCD_296_19

Oxygen Alkaline Dental's Cleaners from Tooth Plaque, Food Debris, Stains of Blood, and Pus: A Narrative Review of the History of Inventions

J Int Soc Prev Community Dent. 2019 Sep 30;9(5):427-433. doi: 10.4103/jispcd.JISPCD_296_19. eCollection 2019 Sep-Oct.

Authors

Aleksandr Urakov^{1

2}, Natalia Urakova³, Alexey Reshetnikov⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of General and Clinical Pharmacology, Izhevsk State Medical Academy, Izhevsk, Russia.
² Department of Synthesis and Modeling of Technological Processes, Udmurt Federal Research Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Izhevsk, Russia.
³ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Izhevsk State Medical Academy, Izhevsk, Russia.
⁴ Izhevsk Dental Clinic "ReSto," Izhevsk, Russia.

Abstract

Objective: This review shows the history of inventions of devices, hygiene products, and methods of dissolution and removal of pus, sulfur plugs, blood crusts, and plaque.

Material and methods: The search for inventions was carried out in the databases, such as Google Patent, Google Scholar, Scopus, and PubMed. The key words used in this search were as follows: toothbrushes, toothpicks, toothpastes, plaque, cleaning products for teeth and dentures, teeth whiteners and dentures, bleach bruises and blood stains, pus, sulfur plugs, and pus solvents. A total of 24 inventions were evaluated for review.

Results: In recent years, hygiene products that quickly dissolve and bleach pus, sulfur plugs, blood stains, and plaque because of alkaline saponification of protein-lipid complexes and cold boiling inside the biological masses have been invented. Such an action has a heated above 37°C supersaturated sodium bicarbonate solutions containing hydrogen peroxide in moderate concentrations and gaseous oxygen under excessive pressure. Cold boiling inside the dense biological masses occurs under the action of catalase and/or due to the normalization of internal pressure in the solution.

Conclusion: Alkalinity, hyperthermia, and hyperoxygenation of solutions with high internal pressure optimize whitening of teeth and dentures because of alkaline saponification and cold boiling.

Keywords: Dental bleach; dental’s cleaner; mouthwash; physical–chemical properties; plaque; pus; toothpaste; toothpick.

Publication types

Review