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case reports
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| 60-year-old joiner with early loosening of a hip prosthesis |
no data |
positive (palpable erythema after 48 and 96 hours) |
no skin reactions after occupational exposure to numerous glues |
Haddad et al. 1995
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| 1 dental worker |
2% (petrolatum) |
positive (no other details) |
patient with dermatitis 4 weeks after the beginning of exposure to dental materials |
Rai et al. 2014
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| 1 dental student with vesiculobullous changes on his fingertips |
no data |
positive (no other details) |
additional positive reaction to a monomer liquid handled by the student (no other details) |
Santosh et al. 1999
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| 62-year-old housewife with diffuse redness and discomfort on the oral mucous membrane after receiving new dentures |
1% (petrolatum) |
1+ and 2+ (after 48 and 72 hours, respectively) |
healing of the changes after the dentures had not been worn for a prolonged period |
Tosti et al. 1990
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| 79-year-old woman with discomfort (pain and burning) on the tongue several months after receiving new dentures |
5% (petrolatum) |
2+ (after 48 and 72 hours) |
additional 2+ reaction to abrasion material of the prosthesis; no reaction to 5% N,N-dimethyl-p-toluidine in 139 other patients tested (no other details); symptoms reversible after a period without using the dentures |
Verschueren and Bruynzeel 1991
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results of patch tests in larger cohorts
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| 22 patients with burning mouth syndrome |
5% (petrolatum) |
positive in 3 of 22 (no other details) |
test period not reported; 20 of the 22 patients with complete or partial dentures |
Dutrée-Meulenberg et al. 1992
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| 38 patients with implant intolerance |
no data |
positive in 0 of 38 |
test period not reported |
Eben et al. 2010
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| 725 patients |
2% (petrolatum) |
positive in 1 of 725 (no other details) |
test period: 8/1992 to 7/1994; in addition, 10 × questionable and 1 × irritant reactions; overlapping of the cohort with that of Richter and Geier (1996) |
Gebhardt and Geier 1996
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| 40 dental technicians |
2% (petrolatum) |
positive in 0 of 40 |
test period: 1/1990 to 7/1993 |
Gebhardt et al. 1996
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| 66 patients with planned total hip replacements, 14 patients with a stable hip prosthesis and 50 patients with loosening of their hip prosthesis |
2% (petrolatum) |
positive in 1 of 66, 0 of 14 and 2 of 50 (no other details) |
test period: 1/2001 to 5/2004 |
Granchi et al. 2006
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| 15 patients with early loosening of their hip prosthesis, 55 patients with total hip replacements |
0.5% (no data) |
positive in 7 of 15 and in 0 of 55 (no other details) |
test period not reported |
Haddad et al. 1996
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| 53 dental workers with self-reported history of dermatitis on the hands |
2% (petrolatum) |
positive in 1 of 53 (1+, after 96 hours) |
positive in a 42-year-old female orthodontist; relevance of the reaction not reported |
Hill et al. 1998
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| 43 patients |
2% (petrolatum) |
positive in 1 of 43 (no other details) |
test period: 1981 to 1988; reaction was not considered to be relevant; testing with plastic and glue constituents |
Holness and Nethercott 1997
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| 9238 patients |
2% (petrolatum) |
positive in 9 of 9238 (1+, after 72 hours) |
test period: 1997 to 2016; in addition 46 × questionable and 11 × irritant reactions; the 9 patients reacted on average to 6 different allergens |
IVDK 2017
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| 53 patients with burning mouth syndrome and dental prostheses |
30% (olive oil) |
positive in 1 of 53 (2+, after 48 or 72 hours) |
positive in 1 patient with complete upper dentures; no reaction to test formulation in 20 control persons |
Kaaber et al. 1979
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| 143 patients |
5% (petrolatum) |
positive in 0 of 143 |
testing over a period of 3 years with plastic and glue constituents; possible overlapping of the cohort with that of Kanerva et al. (1999) |
Kanerva et al. 1997
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| 309 patients |
5% (petrolatum) |
positive in 0 of 309 |
test period: 1991 to 1996; testing with plastic and glue constituents; in addition, 1 × irritant reaction; possible overlapping of the cohort with that of Kanerva et al. (1997) |
Kanerva et al. 1999
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| 79 dentists and 46 dental assistants |
5% (petrolatum) |
positive in 0 of 125 |
test period: 1990 to 2000 |
Kiec-Swierczyńska and Krecisz 2002
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| 150 dental technician students |
5% (petrolatum) |
positive in 9 of 150 (no other details) |
positive reaction in 37 and 22 technicians to 2% formaldehyde and 5% N,N-bis(2-hydroxyethyl)-p-toluidine (in petrolatum), respectively |
Lyapina et al. 2019
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| 756 patients |
2% (petrolatum) |
positive in 1 of 756 (no other details) |
test period: 1/1990 to 7/1993; overlapping of the cohort with that of Gebhardt and Geier (1996) |
Richter and Geier 1996
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| 35 dental technicians with occupational dermatitis on the hands |
2% (petrolatum) |
positive in 1 of 35 (no other details) |
test period: 2/1993 to 6/1994; positive reaction in 1 of a total of 55 tested technicians; relevance unclear |
Rustemeyer and Frosch 1996
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| 33 patients with lichenoid lesions of the oral mucosa |
2% (petrolatum) |
positive in 1 of 33 (no other details) |
test period: 2009 to 2012 |
Şahin et al. 2016
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| 30 patients with lesions of the oral mucosa or lips |
no data |
positive in 0 of 30 |
test period: 1/1990 to 7/1998 |
Santosh et al. 1999
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| 444 patients |
5% (petrolatum) |
0 of 444 |
test period: 2002 to 2007; irritant reaction in 1.6% of the patients; testing with plastic and glue constituents |
Shmidt et al. 2010
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| 115 patients with lichenoid lesions of the oral mucosa |
2% (petrolatum) |
positive in 2 of 115 (no other details) |
test period: 11/2007 to 6/2014 |
Suter and Warnakulasuriya 2016
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| 113 patients with implant intolerance |
2% (petrolatum) |
positive in 0 of 113 |
test period not reported |
Thomas et al. 2008
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| 250 patients with suspected allergy to bone implants |
2% (petrolatum) |
positive in 0 of 250 |
test period: 8/2010 to 9/2013 |
Thomas et al. 2015
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