US 7,601,002 B2
	Dental whitening method
Nebojsa Milanovich, Somerset, N.J. (US); Ryan B. Cameron, Somerset, N.J. (US); John P. Curtis, Alpha, N.J. (US); Ravi Subramanyam, Belle Mead, N.J. (US); and Michael Prencipe, West Windsor, N.J. (US)
Assigned to Colgate-Palmolive Co, New York, N.Y. (US)
Filed on Mar. 29, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/811,724.
Prior Publication US 2005/0214720 A1, Sep. 29, 2005
Int. Cl. A61C 5/00 (2006.01)

U.S. Cl. 433—215

15 Claims

1. A method for whitening a dental surface, the method comprising nonsimultaneously applying a whitening composition to the surface, said whitening composition comprising at least one orally acceptable peroxy compound, and directing a volume of up to about 2.5 ml of an atomized activating composition on to the surface, wherein said directing of the atomized activating composition on to the dental surface follows said applying of the whitening composition to the surface, wherein the activating composition comprises, in said volume, a peroxy compound activating effective amount of at least one orally acceptable basifying agent, and wherein applying said whitening composition and directing said activating composition are separated by an interval not greater than a peroxy compound activating effective interval.