{"pk":15837,"title":"I Can't Believe It's Not Toothpaste! Poison Control Center Calls Regarding Dental and Oral-Care Products","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Background: A cluster of incidents in which non-toothpaste products were used to brush teeth prompted a review of all calls to one Poison Control Center (PCC) regarding exposures to dental and oral-care products to determine if any resulted in significant toxicity.\n\n\nMethods: Retrospective review of 65,849 calls to one PCC during one calendar year. All inquiries about exposures to substances used as dental or oral-care products were analyzed by a single reviewer for reported adverse effects, including hospital admission or PCC referral for emergent medical evaluation.\n\n\nResults: 798 calls involved exposure to dental or oral-care products, comprising 1.21% of all calls received. Toothbrushing incidents with non-toothpaste products (122 cases) did not result in any significant recognized toxicity. Twenty-four patients were either referred for emergent medical evaluation (14) or were admitted to the hospital (10). In 23 of these patients (96%), the toxic agent was either an over-the-counter analgesic or a local anesthetic used to treat dental pain.\n\n\nConclusions: Among PCC calls received regarding dental and oral-care products, over-the-counter analgesics and local anesthetics used for dental pain resulted in the most frequent need for emergent medical evaluation or for hospital admission.","language":"en","license":{"name":"none","short_name":"none","text":"","url":"http://google.com"},"keywords":[],"section":"Article","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4hk3w2gx","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Jeffrey","middle_name":"R","last_name":"Suchard","name_suffix":"","institution":"Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine Medical Center","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2008-04-26T07:00:00Z","date_accepted":"2008-04-26T07:00:00Z","date_published":"2003-01-01T08:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/15837/galley/7934/download/"}]}