Patent ID: RE42024

Claim:
A method of applying a dental composition in the oral environment to a tooth structure using an aqueous dental composition comprising about 10% by weight to about 50% by weight of a thermally responsive viscosity modifier one or more polymers, water, and an one or more adjuvant s , wherein the composition is in one or more polymers is a polyoxyalkylene polymer, which provides the composition with a low er viscosity state at a pre-treatment temperature and a highly viscous higher viscosity state at a treatment temperature that is higher than the pre-treatment temperature, comprising: applying the composition through an orifice onto a surface of the tooth structure , wherein the composition is at the pretreatment temperature and in the low er viscosity state prior to being applied onto the surface of the tooth structure , allowing the composition to warm to the treatment temperature and increase in viscosity to the highly viscous higher viscosity state wherein the viscosity of the composition at the treatment temperature is at least about 10 times the viscosity of the composition at the pre-treatment temperature, and allowing the composition to remain on the surface of the tooth structure .