PHARMACOLOGY IN BYZANTINE DENTAL PRACTICE
PHARMACOLOGY IN BYZANTINE DENTAL PRACTICE

Summary/Abstract: The study of the Byzantine medical texts reveals a great number of references about dental drugs. This frequency indicates that problems of oral health were common and part of the epidemiology of those times. In the extended medical compilations, the authors offer a variety of preventive and healing advices on teeth, adding in parallel some elements of magic that co-exist with the apparently scientific therapeutic methods. As Byzantine surgery is famous for the achievements in almost every specialty, the maxilla-facial and oral surgery has certain successful results to show. The prevention is another section of interest for the medical texts, because the physicians estimate the presupposition of oral health for the general well-being of the human body and its physiological function.

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