Clinical Trials with Herbal Products for the Prevention of Dental Caries and Their Quality: A Scoping Study.

ABSTRACT: It is currently recognized that an injudicious strategy about caries in the last decades has been not only focusing of research mostly in children, but also the narrow focusing on fluoride, because despite sufficient availability of fluoride in water and oral healthcare products, caries levels escalate steadily as people get older and caries remain a main public health issue to be settled. In the last two decades the scientific community intensified efforts of exploring other products for caries prevention, herbal products being one of these approaches. Preliminary evidence indicated that clinical trials for caries prevention with herbal products are heterogeneous in design, quality and products evaluated, we therefore performed a scoping review intended to explore the main characteristics

SUBMITTER: Ancuceanu R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6995540 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature