Abstract: Methods for utilizing a dental prosthesis are disclosed. In particular, the methods for utilizing a dental prosthesis include applying a retention composition including an effective amount of an orally acceptable retention agent so as to provide sufficient adhesive characteristics to the composition to maintain the prosthesis in position in the mouth of a subject, and an effective amount of sodium bicarbonate to inhibit the growth of bacteria and fungi. Methods for utilizing and/or cleaning dental prosthesis are also disclosed, including employing these retention compositions to retain the dental prosthesis against the oral mucous membrane, and then contacting the dental prosthesis containing the retention composition after use with an acidic medium so that the sodium bicarbonate and the acidic medium react to generate gas bubbles which effectively burst the retention composition adhering to the prosthesis.

Abstract: The invention relates to a retention composition for dental prosthesis which, as well as the requisite retention agent, contains a compound inhibiting the growth of bacteria and fungi. The invention aims primarily at eliminating the problems of earlier inhibitors in such compositions which were found to produce toxic and allergic reactions in the mucous membrane tissues. According to the invention, said compound is sodium bicarbonate.

Abstract: A stand for instruments of metal for use in the field of medicine, particularly odontology, comprising a body composed of a large number of sheets of a liquid impregnatable paper material. The sheets are arranged vertically close together so that the instruments are insertable by their operating ends between the sheets to be retained there during the sterilizing process and are thus stored easily accessible for subsequent clinical work. The sheets of paper are impregnated with a corrosion inhibitor to protect the instruments at least during a sterilizing process.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for destroying infectious material of disposable type, especially medical articles. Such articles are after use immersed in a composition which combined with water or some other solvent results in a solid viscous or sticky compound, which cannot be removed from the material without this becoming destroyed and unfit for further use.

Abstract: Method and means for continuously disinfecting a flow medium after its removal from an infectious area by passing it through a disinfecting zone in which a treating composition containing microbicidal substances is added to said flow medium.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method and composition for local application of an active preventive and/or therapeutic agent in the oral cavity by means of a carrier into which the active agent is incorporated. The carrier is an initially mouldable mass which after application is converted into a tough or viscous, elastic consistency.

Abstract: An antimicrobial composition comprising as active ingredients dodecyl-di-(aminoethyl)-glycine and chlorohexidine or salts thereof.