Anticaries compositions

Claim 1

In a composition for preventing dental caries consisting essentially of a pharmaceutically acceptable oral hygiene vehicle containing an effective concentration to prevent caries of at least one pharmaceutically acceptable fluoride salt; the improvement which consists of including therewith ion activating enhancing amount of a pharmaceutically acceptable alkyl phenoxy or alkyloxydibenzene sulfonate salt selected from the group consisting of: bis(alkylphenoxy)alkane sulfonate salts of the structure (A), ##STR10## monoalkyldiphenyloxide monsulfonate salts of the structure (B), ##STR11## dialkyldiphenyloxide monsulfonate salts of structure (C), ##STR12## monoalkyldiphenyloxide disulfonate salts of the structure (D), ##STR13## dialkyldiphenyloxide disulfonate salts of the structure (E), ##STR14## monoalkyloxydibenzene monosulfonate salts of the structure (F), ##STR15## dialkyloxydibenzene monosulfonate salts of the structure (G), ##STR16## monoalkyloxydibenzene disulfonate salts of the structure (H), ##STR17## dialkyloxydibenzene disulfonate salts of structure (I), ##STR18## wherein R is a linear or branched chain alkyl containing from 10 to 20 carbon atoms; R 1 , R 2 , R 3 and R 4 are linear or branched chain alkyl containing from 8 to 20 carbon atoms, n is an integer from 2 to 4; and M is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, lithium, sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, zinc, aluminum, copper, ammonium and the substituted ammonium ions derived from pharmaceutically acceptable organic amines.