Abstract: An inquiry respondinq apparatus receives an inquiry and stores a response to the inquiry in a first database. The apparatus determines whether or not the first database can be searched for the response to the inquiry, and when it is determined that the first database can be searched for the response to the inquiry, and when it is determined that the first database can be searched, a search for the response is performed. However, when it is determined that the first database cannot be searched, the apparatus transmits the inquiry to an external information processing device, and the apparatus receives a response to the inquiry which is transmitted from the external information processing device. Then, one of the response obtained by searching the first database and the response received from the external device is displayed on a display.

Abstract: An inquiry responding apparatus includes a receiving means for receiving an inquiry, a first database for storing a response to the inquiry, a determining means for determining whether or not said first database can be searched for the response to the inquiry, a searching means for searching said first database for the response to the inquiry when the determining means determines that said first database can be searched, a transmitting means for transmitting the inquiry to an external information processing device when said determining means determines that said first database cannot be searched, a second receiving means for receiving a response to the inquiry which is transmitted from the external information processing device, a displaying means for displaying one of the response obtained by said searching means and the response received by the second receiving means.

Abstract: An oral composition containing (i) fumed silica and polyethylene glycol having an average molecular weight of 2000 to 6000.