Here is a link to Fixodent's ingredients:

http://householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov...ds&id=16003393

Looks like the same zinc polymer is used with it too.

Zinc is used in high doses for bed sores and other skin problems in nursing homes. Zinc Oxide oint is used for people wearing diapers..often in huge amounts.

The RX dose of zinc sulfate for bedsores is 220mg 3 or 4 times a day orally.

Zinc is far more likely to be deficient than toxic.

It will be interesting to see where this subject goes. So far only a few anecdotal reports exist for this particular subject.

Here is an interesting link to zinc/food sources:
http://www.thebody.com/Forums/AIDS/N...s/Q125692.html

This link has an interesting bibliography:
http://archneur.ama-assn.org/cgi/con...ract/60/9/1303
it is the same article I copied to the other thread.

This article connects zinc overload to hemochromatosis (which is a fairly common genetic disease).
http://www.patient.co.uk/showdoc/40025340/
This is a UK site, and UK has a higher incidence genetically for hemochromatosis so that may be a factor.