Uso de plantas medicinais na modulação da doença periodontal uma revisão sistemática

Abstract

Periodontal disease is a disease that has a multifactorial and chronic inflammatory nature, which is associated with dental biofilm and its specific pathogens. Treatment involves root debridement with curettes, consultations with oral hygiene guidelines and planned follow-ups, however the patient sometimes gives up treatment due to lack of knowledge, treatment time and accessibility. Thus, medicinal plants have become a therapeutic possibility for this disease, as they have been proven in the literature to be anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and antibacterial. This review aims to evaluate the effectiveness of treatment with medicinal plants and their derivatives in modulating periodontal disease. For this, 16 articles on the topic were evaluated, after a search in databases carried out between October 2023 and January 2024. And it was seen that the articles studied show that medicinal plants have anti- inflammatory and antibacterial activities against periodontal disease, being an easily accessible product for patients, thus enabling an improvement in existing treatment strategies for this disease. However, it is necessary to increase the methodological quality of pre-clinical studies, especially regarding blinding and sample size calculation.