Harnessing Natural Ingredients for Oral Health: A Review of Traditional Dental Practices in India

Oral health plays a vital role in overall public health and well-being globally. To preserve good oral health, it is important to take a proactive, interdisciplinary approach for prevention/early-treatment of common illnesses. Owing to public safety and efficacy in preventing dental caries and other dental diseases, the whole population is prone to natural components as it currently being more acceptable than synthetic formulations based on chemicals. There are few traditional folk procedures that have demonstrated greater effectiveness in maintaining dental hygiene, such as chewable sticks, oil pulling method and wood ash. Considering that there were no chemicals involved in traditional procedures, and with an immense literature survey the authors found it as safer alternative of the modernized chemical based oral care. To achieve some possible improvements in the public health with better oral care, this review disseminates the revamping of modern oral care method by incorporating traditional touch to achieve the better oral health as in future aspects with natural ingredients.