Beneficial effects of specific natural substances on oral health

Shaikh, Sameer; Kumar, S. Manoj

doi:10.15537/smj.2017.12.20516

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“…However the therapy alone does not restore all the gingival tissues and supplementary aids are used as adjuvant to ultrasonic scaling. [41,42].A bundle of studies have claimed favorable effects of natural products like olive oil, almond oil, green tea, propolis, honey and aloe vera [42][43][44][45][46][47] In this study we observed synergistic effects of gingival massage with two naturopaths that is aloe-vera gel and sidr honey compared with control group.105 participants of gingivitis with 3 loss to follow-up were reported in our research. mean age reported in our study is 48.6 ± 8.6 which is similar to a survey in United States which reported higher prevalence of gingivitis in adults with mean age as > 30 years [48].…”

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Comparative Efficacy of Gingival Massage of Aloe-vera gel and Sidr Honey on Gingival health: a randomized clinical trial

Khalid

Ahmed

Farooqui

et al. 2023

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Background Inflammation of gingival tissues in response to bacterial plaque accumulation is a key risk factor for the onset of gingivitis and progression towards periodontal inflammation. Thus, control of gingival inflammation is a prerequisite to sustain gingival health. Honey has been used in gingivitis and periodontal diseases for its antibacterial and healing properties, on the other hand, use of aloe-vera gel for its anti-inflammatory properties, has been reported in dentistry for many oral conditions. The main objective of the study was to find out the effects of gingival massage with aloe-vera gel and sidr honey as adjunct as well as the difference in the efficacy of aloe-vera gel and sidr honey in reducing clinical parameters. Method: 105 patients with gingivitis were selected in this single-blinded Randomized control clinical trial. At recruitment dental prophylaxis i-e ultra-sonic scaling (US) was performed. At baseline all clinical parameters, gingival index, plaque index and bleeding on probing were recorded. All the participants were then randomly divided into three groups, Group A: US & Gingival massage with aloe-vera gel, Group B: US & Gingival massage with Sidr honey and Group C US only. On 30th day of trial all the patients were re-examined for all the clinical parameters. Results: Gingival massage with both interventions showed statistically significant improvement in plaque index, gingival index and bleeding on probing. In Group A and B highly, significant differences were observed in plaque index (<0.001), gingival index (<0.001) and bleeding on probing after gingival massage with interventions when compared with control group. However, when group A was compared to group B significant differences were observed in gingival index. Conclusion This clinical trial showed that gingival massage with both naturopath’s aloe-vera gel and sidr honey had significant effect in reducing plaque index, gingival index and bleeding on probing when used as adjuncts in patients with gingivitis. However, sidr honey gingival massage was more effective than aloe-vera gel in comparison to control group. Trial Registration no: ClinicalTrials.gov, under the protocol ID NCT05231096 (https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05231096).

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“…The anti-in ammatory action of honey gives the soothing effect on topical applications [25]. The antioxidants present in honey along with the antiin ammatory action prevent the deterioration of gingival and periodontal tissues [18][19][20][26][27][28][29].…”

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Comparative Efficacy of Gingival Massage of Aloe-vera gel and Sidr Honey on Gingival health: a randomized clinical trial

Khalid

Ahmed

Farooqui

et al. 2023

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“…Key to the prevention of dental diseases is maintenance of good oral hygiene. Herbal extracts have received special attention because of being non-chemical and non synthetic in nature, and have been used in traditional medicine [36][37][38][39]. Interest in natural based toothpastes has increased since…”

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Anti-microbial Efficacy of Commercially Available Herbal Dentifrices on Streptococcus mutans and Candida albicans

Babu

Arumugham

Kumar

et al. 2020

JPRI

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Dental caries is a multi-factorial disease .Various chemically derived antimicrobial agents are incorporated to dentifrices to curb cariogenic microorganisms. There has been renewed interest in naturally occurring products in recent years, the side effects encountered with the use of synthetic formulations led to the surge for novel alternatives. To compare the efficacy of herbal dentifrices on oral microflora using antibiotic susceptibility tests. Two strains of microorganisms- Streptococcus mutans, and Candida albicans were taken and incubated in Mutans media, Sabouraud Dextrose agar respectively. Different dilutions (1:5, 1:10, 1:15) of several brands of toothpastes with different compositions were made. Sterile discs were incorporated with equal amounts of prepared toothpaste formulations. Then these discs were placed equidistant to each other followed by plates were incubated for 24 hours. Zone of inhibition is found to be higher in Ayush (30 mm), followed by Dant kanti, Colgate vedshakti, Meswak, Dantajeevan and Dabur red showing inhibition zones of 26 mm, 24 mm, 17 mm and 14 mm respectively. Results show that herbal toothpaste formulations were effective in controlling the oral microflora. The antimicrobial properties of the six dentifrices concluded that almost all the commercially available herbal dentifrices had antimicrobial activity to some extent.

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