Dentanol: frequently asked questions

A dietary supplement sold for gum health and fresh breath. One bottle is 30 chewable tablets a bottle. The front of the bottle carries the brand name, two starred claims — “Promotes Gum Health & Fresh Breath*” and “Helps Maintain Oral Hygiene*” — the tablet count and the words Dietary Supplement. That is the whole of the front panel.

Nobody supplied that. It is the central fact about this product and the honest answer is a blank: no ingredient is named anywhere — not on the bottle, not in the marketing, not in the seller pack. There is no amount of anything in any unit, and no Other Ingredients line. This site will not guess, so the question stays unanswered here rather than being filled in with something plausible.

Because there is none to reproduce. Not a poor panel, not a partial one — no Supplement Facts panel appears on any image, graphic or document supplied with this product. The FDA lists five statements a dietary supplement label must carry; this product supplies the first two, and the third, fourth and fifth are missing.

The nearest thing to a disclosure. A circular graphic supplied as the ingredient panel holds eight photographs of plants with no captions and no names: forked pale roots, dried woody slices, shredded bark, cut tubers, three berries with leaves, dried root strips, a drawn flowering plant and small red berries on a stem. Each is described on the ingredients page exactly as far as a photograph can be described, and no further.

Because a photograph is not an ingredient name. Identifying a species from a picture and then publishing research about the species we identified would produce a page that read like evidence and was not, and it is the one thing this desk will not do. The guide on ingredient names sets out the five things a real entry carries — common name, Latin binomial, plant part, extract ratio and amount — and the wheel supplies none of them.

A panel laid out as a disclosure that discloses nothing. Its six boxes are labelled PRODUCT FORMULA, SUPPLEMENT FACTS, BOTTLE LABEL, LABEL DIRECTIONS, DAILY ROUTINE and ADULT USE, and every one of them holds an illustration of the thing it names — a molecule diagram, a magnifying glass over a blurred grey rectangle, a stylised sheet of paper. A reader who studies it closely learns the same amount as a reader who does not.

Not published. The entire instruction supplied is “Follow the label. Confirm the pack you received.” — sound advice, and unusable, because no label carrying a direction reached this desk. Whether the tablets are chewed before or after brushing is not stated either.

That cannot be worked out. Thirty tablets at one a day is a month; at three a day it is ten days. Since the serving size is not published, neither the duration of a bottle nor a cost per day can be calculated. The timeline page publishes no timeline for exactly this reason.

That cannot be established. An interaction is a relationship between two named substances, and a pharmacist checks one by reading the ingredient list. With no ingredient named, the check cannot be performed — not by you, not by a pharmacist, not by this desk. That is neither a reassurance nor a warning; it is the statement that the question has no available answer.

The same answer, and it matters more on this dosage form. A chewable tablet is a sweetened, flavoured, compressed food, and the excipients that make it chewable are exactly what an allergic buyer needs listed. No allergen statement was supplied, and the Other Ingredients line reads: Not published. No Other Ingredients line was supplied. This is the most practically weighty finding on the site.

None of the three. Here is the cautions entry in full: “Not published. No caution block, no age statement, no pregnancy or nursing wording and no “consult a physician” line appears on anything supplied with this product.” There is also no keep-out-of-reach-of-children line and no safety-seal line. The safety page sets out what each absence costs a buyer.

This is the one part of the product that is specified exactly. $69.00 plus $9.99 shipping for one bottle, $177.00 for three and $294.00 for six — $69.00, $59.00 and $49.00 a bottle. The single bottle is the only pack charged shipping.

$2.63 a tablet on the single bottle with shipping, $1.97 on the three-pack and $1.63 on the six. The six-pack is 38% cheaper per tablet than the single, which is a real saving. It is also the only per-unit figure this product supports, because a cost per day needs a serving size and there is none.

One bottle, at $78.99 delivered — the worst value per tablet of the three, and still the right first purchase. It is the least money at risk on a product whose contents are not disclosed, and the larger packs will still be there at the same prices once somebody has sent you the panel. The full reasoning is on the pricing page.

Yes, and it is the strongest part of this product. The published window is 60 days from purchase, as printed on the sales and information page. The buyer posts the return with tracking and pays the postage; the refund is issued three to five business days after the return is credited and takes five to ten more to reach a card. A claim is opened by ringing +1 (302) 200-3480 with the order ID.

Nothing supplied says. It is the one clear gap in otherwise well-documented buying terms, and it matters because any honest trial of a product produces an opened bottle. Settle it with the order desk before you pay rather than on day sixty-one. Note also that the window runs from purchase, not from delivery, and no transit time was supplied.

No dietary supplement is. The FDA states it plainly: “Under DSHEA, FDA does not have the authority to approve dietary supplements before they are marketed.” The standard disclaimer is printed with this product in the usual wording: “These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.” What is worth noticing is that no GMP mark and no facility registration mark were supplied here either.

No GMP mark and no facility registration mark were supplied with this product. The three marks that were supplied are a 100% natural roundel, a GMO-free roundel and a 60-day money-back roundel. The money-back roundel is the one with something behind it, because a refund window is a term a buyer can hold a seller to. The other two are claims about ingredients, printed beside a product whose ingredients are not disclosed — and “natural” has no agreed definition in US supplement labelling. The seals page takes each in turn.

Because the material supplied cannot be treated as review data. The pack provided 4.6 / 5, 925 written reviews, 5,724 orders, 92% recommending and eight named customers — and a second pack, for an unrelated product from a different company in the same batch, carried the identical block with different numbers in it. This site publishes no rating, no review count and no testimonials.

It came from the same template as the star rating, and it is layout copy by the pack’s own admission. There is also no trial of this formula, because there is no published formula, and no timeline can be built without a dose. So this site prints no waiting period at all rather than repeating a figure whose origin is a page layout.

Lot DEN-26/GO-4795 and certificate reference DEN-4795-26-GO were supplied as draft references rather than laboratory documents. No Certificate of Analysis file reached this desk and no testing laboratory is named anywhere. A reference without a document is a string of characters. The verification page explains what a real one would contain.

No manufacturer, packer or distributor is named on anything supplied — the fifth of the five required label statements is simply absent. The order desk is +1 (302) 200-3480, described in the pack as a payment processor’s default line, and there is no sales email at all. This desk answers questions about these pages at [email protected] and cannot see orders. The contact page sets out all of it.

Four documents, by name, in writing, to your own email address: the Supplement Facts panel, the ingredient list with amounts, the allergen statement and the serving size. Every one is routine on a compliant supplement and none of the four reached this desk. It is the single most useful thing a reader of this site can do, it costs a telephone call, and the quality of the answer tells you as much as the answer.