Practice of Ayurveda in Dentistry

For good systemic and oral health, proper maintaining of oral hygiene is very important. Ayurvedic medicine is one of the world’s oldest medical systems that originated over thousands of years. There has been a long tradition of improving a oral hygiene using plants products, to research different plants and their products in the treatment of various ailments, since ancient times as effective medicine. Many medical plants have been used as traditional treatment for numerous diseases since ages in many parts of the world. Ayurveda an ancient science based on the herbal therapies believes that dental problem can be treated by three doshas. Therefore, the search for alternative drugs continues, taking into account natural phytochemicals derived from plants used in conventional medicine.