The Concise Overview of Unani Treatise Contemplating Oral Health and its Associated Common Conditions

Abstract

Oral health is essential to quality of life because it promotes social and physical well-being and serves as a reflection of general health. According to some estimates, dental and oro-dental conditions are the most prevalent illnesses in the world. One important known predisposing factor for various oral illnesses is poor oral hygiene. Since the beginning of recorded history, mankind has suffered from oral diseases in all of its manifestations. Ancient Chinese, Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Arabic, and Indian surgical and medical treatises all discuss mouth illnesses at some point. Many renowned Unani physicians have too mentioned about various oral diseases and unhygienic conditions in their respective books. They have clearly mentioned how to maintain oral health and treat various oral conditions in their respective rich Unani texts. Present review paper is an attempt to throw some light over oral hygiene, its historical background and diseases which occur due to poor oral health light of the Unani literature.