European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

HONEY AS A MEDICAMENT FOR MANAGEMENT OF PATIENTS WITH DRY SOCKET: A REVIEW.

*Md Muzaffar Ali Khan, Ahmed Areashi, Ahmed Balubaid, Fareedi Mukram Ali and Mohammed Mustafa

ABSTRACT

Dry Socket is a common post-surgical complication following extraction of permanent teeth. Various risk factors has been mentioned for this complication including gender, age, amount of trauma during extraction, difficulty of extraction, inappropriate irrigation, infection, smoking, and oral contraceptive use. Honey is one of the oldest known medicines. Its use has been rediscovered in later times by the medical profession, especially for dressing wounds. It has been reported from various clinical studies on the usages of honey as a dressing for infected wounds that the wound become sterile in 3-6 days, others have also reported that the honey is effective in cleaning up infected wound. Therefore this review was done to know the various aspects of the usage of honey in the treatment of dry socket.

Keywords: Dry socket, Honey, Alveolitis.