Denture cleaners can destroy your soft reline .

Not all denture cleaners are the same.  Not all soft relines are the same either.  Is your patient having trouble with eating, smiling, talking, and being natural with your friends because your dentures are lose fitting ?

In studies using one type of reline material, some cleaners make that material harder as it ages, yet other cleaners make the same material softer as it ages.

Regardless of softer or harder, the process is degrading the reline.

Shrinkage of the soft reline is the result of the reline getting harder, causing loose fit.  Softening of the reline causes expansion, also resulting in a distorted, hard to seat fit.

This premature breakdown is caused by cleaner !

All denture cleaners   speed up the aging process of your soft relines.  The harsher the cleaner, the faster the soft reline will breakdown, fit will distort, and the case will fail.

All the denture cleaners that are sold in drug stores are fast acting and cause fast soft reline breakdown.  They clean so fast that they should be classified as “Stain Removers” instead of “Denture Cleaner”.

Many denture cleaners sold in drug stores contain Perborate (Borax) as the active ingredient.  Others contain bleach (Hypochlorite), and Persulfate (Sulfur) as active ingredients.  Only “Prolastic Denture Cleaner” uses Buffered Alkali as the active ingredient.  Alkali is the active ingredient in many of your household cleaners such as dishwasher liquid, shampoo, bar soap, clothes washing detergent, etc.

The reason that all the denture cleaners sold in stores use harsh chemicals is because fast acting cleaners are easier to sell.  Their marketing experts sell these products with claims of “Fast Acting, Effective, and Easy”.  They never tell you that their products are harmful to soft relines, and by default, put the blame on the dentist for using sub-standard materials or lab service.

In research studies, using popular, advertised brands, the safest cleaners on the market for soft relines use oxygen as the cleaning action and use Presulfate (Sulfur) base.  (These studies have not included Alkali based cleaners, perhaps because they are slow acting and don’t impress the researchers.)  The oxygenating compound used in the Persulfate products is “Oxone”. 

The two Oxone products on the market are “Sparkle” and our own “Pro-Klean Powder”. 

Pro-Klean Powder has been on the market for over 25 years.  Sparkle has been on the market for only 11 years.  Sparkle is a copy of our Pro-Klean, so we must have done something right for them to copy us.

What they did wrong was to make Sparkle much too strong.  This is why in research studies, Sparkle is better than the others, but not by much of a margin.  Sparkle degrades soft relines almost as fast as the others.

We, as the inventors of “The Original” Oxone “Stain Remover”, Prolastic Denture Cleaner and Pro-Klean”, we know everything about it, and why we formulated it at the strength that we did.  We know that it shouldn’t act in only 15 minutes, and that it shouldn’t be used everyday.  The original copy that Sparkle made was 100% Oxone.  

Wow, that’s strong !

Our formula works in 6 to 8 hours as an overnight soak and should only be used once a week (twice a week if you really need to).  That’s the method to use if you  don’t want to destroy your soft reline.

What you should use everyday is our Buffered Alkali based “Prolastic Denture Cleaner”.  It is the only Buffered Alkali based denture cleaner on the market.

It is slow and gentle and kills fungus & bacteria.  It does not remove stubborn stains, nor do we want it to.  You use “Stain Remover” for that, but a gentle one, not one that acts in only 15 minutes.  “Pro-Klean Powder” is the gentle stain remover to use, when needed, not everyday.

This is typical of the testimonials that we receive from our happy customers:  

“My first lower denture soft reline only lasted one year.  When I complained to my new dentist, he recommended your Prolastic Cleaner 6 years ago.  My soft reline is still in good shape with the use of this product.”

                                                                                     Mr. R. R.
                                                                                     Lake Havasu City, AZ.

We hear comments like this from all of our customers who take the time to write us.

The following research article was publish in the dental journal “Journal of Prosthodontics” Vol. 9, No. 3, Sept., 2000, pp 148-155.

“Effect of Denture Cleaners, Surface Finish, and Temperature on Molloplast B Resilient Liner Color, Hardness, and Texture “

This is a 6 year study using one type of soft reline material “Molloplast B” and 11 different denture cleaners, testing for color changes, hardness, and texture.

The cleaners used were typical drug store bought brands with active ingredients of Perborate (Borax), Persulfate (Sulfur), and Hypochlorite (Bleach).

Efferdent, Polident, and Kleenite is Perborate.  Javex/Calgon is Hypochlorite.  Sparkle (and Pro-Klean) is Persulfate.

Our “Pro-Klean” was omitted from this study, we assume because the slow cleaning action did not impress the researchers.  Our slow action of cleaning was purposely formulated to safeguard soft relines.  Our Alkali cleaner, “Prolastic Denture Cleaner” is even slower action, which is much gentler than any of the cleaners tested. 

The results were that the harshest cleaner was Hypochlorite.

The next harshest cleaner was Perborate. Efferdent, Polident, and Kleenite

The most gentle was Presulfate.  Sparkle.  ( Same active ingredients as used in Pro-Klean)

Again, Sparkle is much too concentrated for use everyday.

The conclusion of this study is that Persulfate is the safest product tested to use on soft relines.  Unfortunately, our Alkali based “Prolastic Denture Cleaner” was not tested, otherwise, it would have dramatically outperformed the other brands.

“Prolastic Denture Cleaner” will add to the life of your soft reline no mater what type of soft reline material that your dentist prescribed.  If your dentist prescribes “Prolastic Silicone” reline material, your relines will last even longer. 

For stain removal, you should use our Presulfate/ Oxone based “Pro-Klean Powder” once a week, or as needed.

For stubborn stains, use our “Pro-Klean Liquid” as needed. (A mild acid based stain remover).

Our goal is to make your soft denture relines as comfortable and long lasting as possible.  Our slow cleaning action is by far, the gentlest on the market.

Prolastic Denture Cleaner and Pro-Klean Powder and Liquid are not available in stores.  Consumers who have not been properly educated about denture cleaners by a dentist, are not impressed with our slow action cleaners.  Most consumers want Fast, Fast, Fast, and marketing experts don’t inform you that it damages the soft liner.  

Another typical testimonial :

" I wish I found out about your denture cleaner products sooner.  I was used to getting soft relines once a year and wondered if it was worth the annual expense.   Since using Prolastic Cleaner I get at least a couple of extra years out of my soft relines.  I have been wearing dentures for over 20 years now.  I have been using your cleaner for about 8 years.  I am only on my 3^nd soft reline since using your products.  Thank You ! "       

                                                                              J. G.
                                                                              Kansas City, MO. 
 

Try Prolastic Cleaner and Pro-Klean Powder for a year.  You’ll notice the difference and you won’t recommend anything else from then on.

You will be able to re-introduce patients to soft relines who had given up on the hassle every year.  A happy patient is a good referral source as well, and therefore, expect do more soft relines than before.    

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