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Patent

PREBIOTIC ORAL CARE COMPOSITIONS CONTAINING CARBOXYLIC ACIDS

The present invention provides an oral care composition comprising a carboxylic acid of the formula (I) wherein: R1 is H, or is a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group; and R2 is H, OH, or NH2; for use in: (a) selectively promoting, in an oral cavity: growth, metabolic activity or colonization of bacteria that have beneficial effects on oral health, relative to growth, metabolic activity or colonization of pathogenic oral bacteria; (b) selectively promoting, in an oral cavity, biofilm formation by bacteria that have beneficial effects on oral health, relative to biofilm formation by pathogenic oral bacteria; or (c) maintaining and/or re-establishing a healthy oral microflora.
Patent Publication Number: WO2015099754
Year filing: 2013
Year approval: 2016
Year publication: 2015
Status: Requested
Technology domains: Organic fine chemistry, Pharmaceuticals
Validated for IOF-key: Yes
Attributed to: Associatie KULeuven, Associatie Universiteit Gent