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Class action lawsuit has just been filled in Canada over dental cream that hold force teeth in place. It’s ledge there’s enough zinc some creams cause brain damage. CBC’s Lisa Johnson has the details.


Amanda Deve’s remembered been healthy, able to job, ride a bike and work 12 hours a day, that end for her in May 2007.

“I was actually like I have a stroke. And it happened at work. And I lost all use of my voice and my wends, couldn’t walk or talk.”

For more than a year that she couldn’t walk or spend time with her grandkids. Treatment has helped he get back on the job, but her hands and voice still tremble and even the bright light from our TV interview triggered her symptoms.

“Just what a pain way, I had to stop.”

Deve’s blame her denture cream for making her sick. It contains zinc, which’s already been in the subjective several class action lawsuits in US.

“If you use fishing poly cream and other dental cream been diagnose with the zinc poisoning.”

This week the merchant law group filed class action lawsuit in three provinces including BC.

“We’ve been contacted by several hundred people. I think the estimation likely in the thousands of people that maybe effected.”

Now zinc is a mineral found in foods and lots of products. But it’s said high dose that can have serious side effects. The lawsuit claim the problem with these cream is that there’s no warning that contain zinc and no information on how much is safety use. Neither company will comment on the lawsuit. Classes make cline which make poly grain stop shipping product containing zinc last Feb. And when customers excessive zincing take would lead tingling, enormous and difficulty walking. Products in gamble makes fix dent which still contain zinc. The company says the product the safety use as directed as warning bout excessive use on some tooth.

“How’s your headache now?”

“Oh, it’s a lot better.”

Deve’s says the warning coming too late for her.