Comments on: Crest Pro Health Mouthwash on NBC’s Today Show

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:46:56 +0000

I used Crest Pro Health only once before going to bed and currently cannot taste anything except the aftertaste of the mouthwash and it doesn’t matter what I eat it will not go away. And if that isn’t bad enough the aftertaste is making me feel nauseated. The shit is nasty!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:27:04 +0000

FUCK CREST PRO HEALTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FUCKING PISSS ME OFFFFFFFFFFF

By: Allen

Allen — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:02:24 +0000

I have been using Crest ProHealth mouth rinse for about 3 weeks and I’ve noticed my tongue is now brown not my entire tongue but the top surface that comes in contact with the roof of my mouth. I called P&G and they are sending me a refund but they told me they had never heard of someones tongue turning brown… But I’m finding that response wasn’t entirely true!! I am not using it ever again!!!
Allen

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 01:34:39 +0000

I am 47, excellent teeth, and my dentist recommended the Crest night rinse during a routine clean 3 weeks ago. She told me to get the clear formula because the colored dyes can stain at night. I did as told. 3 weeks later, my wife commented on brown spots on my teeth when I smiled. When I looked, I couldn’t believe it. Was it a new tea? Was it too much red wine? Was my tooth paste expired? Did I not replace my electric brush head when I supposed to? Did my dentist do something 3 weeks ago? Now I know the answer. Shame on P&G for not listing this potential side-effect on the bottle. I, too, will boycott Crest product – there are plenty of other options. I did send P&G an email – I’m anxious to see if they respond. Thanks to everyone for sharing.

By: ron

ron — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:12:41 +0000

Around the time I began using Crest Pro-Health toothpaste, I began experiencing occasional swelling in my lips and tongue. One occurrence was my lower lip only, another was upper lip only, one was right half of tongue only, one was left half of tongue only. The swelling occurred usually mid-morning and lasted 2-24 hours. A couple of times the swelling was sufficient to affect my speech. The swelling has happened about 7-8 times in the past 6 months, and does not occur when I do not use Crest Pro-Health. If anyone else has these symptoms, please let me know at bucherron@yahoo.com.

By: brandi

brandi — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 05:15:12 +0000

I just realized that this was written in May of 2008!! I wish I had researched before I purchased my bottle of Crest Pro Health Mouthwash. It was only by accident that I found complaints online regarding Crest Pro Health mouthwash that I realized that these brown spots were from the mouthwash I was using! I was at the dentist for a cleaning 7 months ago and have flossed once a day and brushed twice a day since then. I must admit that prior to this dentist visit I did not floss every day but still had a good report at the dentist office. I didn’t have ANY brown spots on my teeth during my less regular flossing. If I had known that a mouthwash would make brown places on my teeth, then I would simply have chosen a different mouth wash. But I guess they know that then don’t they! Now I do not trust the whole Crest line! There are too many other choices out there. I will find out how hard it is to get these stains off my teeth next week when I go to the dentist. BTW- I realize that using flouride will make your teeth less white, but the brown decay looking spots that Crest Pro-Health Mouthwash makes on your teeth is absolutely ridiculous!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:14:30 +0000

I too got brown stains on my teeth due to Crest Pro-”Health” Night mouthwash. It horrified me and it did not immediately occur to me that this was due to the mouthwash until my husband suggested it. Internet searches and a dentist visit later confirmed this! I am so disappointed by this and want to tell everyone how horrible it is.

By: Rhiana

Rhiana — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:36:00 +0000

THANK YOU for speaking up, as well! I started using Crest’s Pro-Health products roughly two weeks ago, because I had run out of my Colgate Total (which I’ll be going back to straight away!).

A couple of days ago, I actually had an episode of my tongue swelling, just hours after I brushed/flossed/rinsed. THEN I began to ‘regurgitate’ my tastebuds (they didn’t actually come from my stomach, but my esophagus rejected swallowing them as they slipped down my throat) which began to slough off in large quantities. I didn’t even know I had that many taste buds to lose! I was terrified by this, as I thought originally I might have a throat/stomach problem. These run in my family. Thank god, my doctor was smart enough to know what it was NOT, and now that I know what I know about these horrifically under-warning-labeled products, I will sleep better tonight. All in all, I have had four episodes of this tongue swelling/taste bud sloughing. My doctor hinted that this might be actionable, and I’ve consulted an attorney. Just tonight I fired off a very angry complaint to the company.

Unfortunately, however, these companies don’t really operate for our health- they operate for health, yes, but only for their pocketbooks.

I am so glad that people are speaking up and spreading the word about these awful products. ‘We the people’ are not as stupid as they would like to think.

THANK YOU!
–Rhiana

By: jessica

jessica — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 04:56:22 +0000

I just posted earlier but wanted to add this link..what a OUTRAGE that crest is marketing this stuff without any warnings about what could happen to some people from using it. Even if it only happened to 1 person…it would be 1 too many. I agree with what most people are saying on the blogs in that I am sure there are much more people experiencing problem with this but they just haven’t attributed it to the rinse. I would have never even thought of that when my mouth problems began. I was just lucky that one of the blogs regarding this popped up when I was doing a search to try to figure out what was going on in my normally very healthy mouth. THink about all the people, many elderly, who don’t use computers and would never even know this information. I will NEVER buy anything from Crest again due to this and they have been the only brand I ever bought prior to this incident. What a disgrace. http://www.joponline.org/doi/abs/10.1902/jop.2006.050141

By: jessica

jessica — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 04:04:10 +0000

I also have had problems stemming from the use of Crest Pro Health rinse. The inside of my mouth had a spot that peeled and felt like a burn but thankfully that went away. I also developed spots in my mouth that when looked at don’t look any different than the rest of my mouth but with my tongue I can feel the texture is different..rough..like lots of little bumps. I see that others have also had this effect and I would just like to know if anyone could tell me how long it took for these to go away once you stopped using the pro health rinse. I am freaking out over this so any info you could give would be tremendously appreciated.
Thank you..you can email me at momvb2four@bellsouth.net