Healozone: A New Way to Treat Dental Caries - A Review

Abstract

In most industrialized countries, dental caries (tooth decay) is a major oral health problem. Healozone is an oxygen generating system that adds ozone to the part of the tooth that is damaged by decay. A thorough literature search was performed using the database like PubMed, Google scholar, BioRxiv, MESH, Google Cochrane database using the keywords ‘healozone’ and ’ dental caries’ with no date and year restrictions. The language is restricted to English. 16 articles with similar data have been found which were analyzed and have been included in this study. The recent articles discussed in this study help us in gaining further knowledge about ‘healozone’ and their application in dental caries. The usage of healozone has been discussed in this article and has been widely used by dental practitioners with a 100% success rate. Healozone treatment is more in contrast to the current traditional therapeutic modalities as it is a minimally invasive and conservative approach, a very inexpensive, painless therapy that increases patient acceptance and compliance with minimal adverse effects. The main aim of the study is to fathom the application of healozone in the treatment of dental caries which is a significant area of focus in a majority of the countries since it affects the population on a vast scale.