Posts Tagged ‘denture cream’
Fox 26 Houston – Denture Cream Dangers
Ed Blizzard discusses the dangers posed by zinc in popular denture adhesive creams with Fox 26’s Melissa Wilson.
USA Network Show ‘Royal Pains’ Features Zinc Poisoning Story Line
This week’s USA Network episode of ‘Royal Pains’ featured a man who suffered zinc poisoning from his denture adhesive cream. The show’s main character, Dr. Hank Lawson diagnosed his patient, a young bodyguard who had lost his teeth on the job, when he noticed that the man had a pair of novelty dentures displayed in his living room. Explaining the diagnosis to his patient, Dr. Lawson said:
This adhesive has high levels of…
ABC Pittsburgh – Lawsuit: Super Poligrip User Became Permanently Disabled
ABC Pittsburgh reports:
A lawsuit was filed against denture adhesive maker GlaxoSmithKline by a Butler County woman who claims that the company’s product left her permanently disabled.
[Her attorney] said harmful levels of zinc in Super Poligrip caused his client, 41-year-old Terri Charpentier, to suffer a copper imbalance.
The copper deficiency forced Charpentier to leave her job and confined her to a wheelchair for a while, according to Peirce.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Woman Sues Over Damage From Polygrip
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports:
Terri Charpentier, 41, a mother of two from the Butler area, today sued GlaxoSmithKline in Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas, claiming harmful levels of zinc in Glaxo’s Super Poligrip denture cream led to a nerve disorder that forced her to resign her clerical job and left her unable to drive or to walk without a walker or a cane.
Mrs. Charpentier alleges that the zinc level led to a…
Psychology Today – Denture Adhesives Bite Back
Psychology Today reports on its Household Hazards blog:
In 2009, a hyper-specialized biomedical journal called NeuroToxicology published a fascinating piece of poison sleuthing (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19732792). The article documented a disturbing series of 11 cases all of whom shared an unusual and crippling constellation of troubles comprised of profound impairment of the nervous system and an inability to produce an adequate number of blood cells. The specific neurological problems included damage to peripheral…
North American Precis Syndicate – Lawsuits Claim Denture Cream Linked To Illness
The North American Precis Syndicate reports on NJ.com:
A debilitating medical condition is taking a devastating bite out of the lives of many denture wearers.
The condition is a type of nerve damage called neuropathy–a tingling and weakness in the arms and legs. It may also develop into complete loss of sensation and make walking or standing nearly impossible.
Recent medical studies have linked zinc found in common over-the-counter denture creams to this devastating…
InjuryBoard – Denture Cream Linked to Zinc Poisoning
Ray De Lorenzi, of the American Association for Justice, writes on InjuryBoard:
GlaxoSmithKline sold dangerous denture cream for over 14 years, while there were plenty of studies to suggest the link between excessive zinc and copper deficiency. To alert consumers, it seems GlaxoSmithKline inserted a piece of paper into the product’s box containing statements that slightly resembled warnings. The headline on the insert read, “For Best Results Start With a Small Amount.”
It is…
24/7 Wall St. – Retirement Comes Early For Seniors Hopped Up On Poligrip
The blog 24/7 Wall St. writes:
[L]ast month, GlaxoSmithKline (the pharmaceutical company that can do nothing right) recalled a popular dental adhesive called Super Poligrip from the market because it contained high levels of Zinc, and some people who used the cream had shown some adverse symptoms associated with the effects of Zinc poisoning (they were dying)…While most of the things that go wrong with GSK are accidents caused by whatever ancient curse was…
New York Times – Weak Rules on Toxins and Safety
David Leonhardt of the New York Times reports:
For 14 years until just last month, GlaxoSmithKline sold a denture cream called Super Poligrip that contained high levels of zinc.
The zinc helped with adhesion and was probably safe so long as people used moderate amounts of cream. Indeed, the human body needs small amounts of zinc to function. But some people ended up using much larger amounts, and they began to develop the kind…
BNET – Glaxo, P&G Breathing Easy: Denture-Cream Zinc-Poisoning Cases Still Few and Far Between
BNet is reporting:
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Procter & Gamble (PG) are on the defensive over the use of zinc in their respective denture fixative brands, Poligrip and Fixodent. But they may have less to worry about than previously thought, as an expected tidal wave of lawsuits has so far been just a trickle.
Both companies have been sued by consumers who claim that zinc in the denture creams has caused nerve damage, but they…
