The Integration of Herbal Remedies as Green Dentistry into Contemporary Dental Practice: Comprehensive review

Manaa, Eman Gamal; Shehata, Nourhan; Aboeissa, Mohamed; Ahmed, Mariam; Zahra, Alaa; Reda, Sherif

doi:10.21608/aijp.2025.411670.1009

The Integration of Herbal Remedies as Green Dentistry into Contemporary Dental Practice: Comprehensive review

Document Type : Scientific review

Authors

¹ Pharmacognosy, faculty of pharmacy,Alsalam university,kafr Al Zayat,Al Gharbia 31611,Egypt

² Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Alsalam University, Kafr Al Zayat, Al Gharbia, 31611, Egypt

10.21608/aijp.2025.411670.1009

Abstract

Since ancient times, herbal medicines and herbal prescriptions have been the preferred method for treating many modern diseases due to their distinct therapeutic properties, as well as their limited side effects and patients' acceptance of such types of herbal medicines. Oral and dental diseases are among the widespread modern diseases due to unhealthy lifestyle habits. This review has discussed how scientific research in the modern era has enriched the applications of medicinal plants and herbal preparations in treating diseases of the mouth and teeth, including tooth decay, mouth ulcers, oral mucosa inflammation, oral cancer, and others. This review also discussed the most important medicinal plants that have been used in treating various oral and dental diseases, their active ingredients, and methods of treating various oral diseases. This review is a comprehensive scientific guide for dental practitioners and patients to the most recent findings of modern research on the use of herbal medicines with an effective therapeutic effect while mitigating the side effects of their synthetic counterparts.

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