Dental Alginate / Molding Materials

[DeerGirl]

I had a bad reaction this week.

Trying to figure out what it was - one of the culprits could be the dental molds I had made this week -- they use this flavored yellow molding material (alginate?) -- and I am sure I managed to not get it all out of my mouth and probably swallowed some.

I didn't even think of it at the time.

Anyone here with any experience with this?

[ravenwoodglass]

The best thing you can do is to ask your dentist to call and find out if it is. Some companies will allow you to call yourself so you can get the name of the material and the company to find out. It is quite possible for the mold material to have gluten ingredients in the flavors and you don't really have to swallow it, all it has to do is come into contact with the mucous membranes in your mouth.

When I was getting crowns done my dentist checked everything, she even checked the cotton balls before she would stick them in my mouth, I kid you not. That one dentist, unfortunately she moved so I can't see her any more, she was the only one since I have been diagnosed that did not gluten me while I was in the chair.

[happygirl]

Not sure if this would help you at all:

Open Original Shared Link thewheat.com/Dental_Products.html

(you'll need to take out the space between "without" and "the" for the link to work)

[DeerGirl]

The best thing you can do is to ask your dentist to call and find out if it is. Some companies will allow you to call yourself so you can get the name of the material and the company to find out. It is quite possible for the mold material to have gluten ingredients in the flavors and you don't really have to swallow it, all it has to do is come into contact with the mucous membranes in your mouth.

On one hand it will actually be a relief if this is the culprit, and not anything else I ate.

[DeerGirl]

Not sure if this would help you at all: <a href="Open Original Shared Link Advertisement/Dental_Products.html" target="external ugc nofollow">Open Original Shared Link Advertisement/Dental_Products.html</a>

happygirl, the link didn't work for me. tried googling it, no luck. what is the site?

[happygirl]

Edited the link - see if that works.