
In accordance with a report by Amar Patel, DDS, Residents and Colleagues at the University of Maryland Dental School, dentists have to pay more attention to potential hazards of exposing patients to zinc; which actually is a common ingredient of a lot of dental products.
Amar Patel stated that "Of direct concern to dental professionals ... has been the recent discovery of neurological disorders resulting from excessive use of denture adhesives, having highly transmittable zinc contents which can cause copper deficiencies."