Current Status and Prospect of Prevention and Treatment of Oral Diseases by Integrative Medicine

To carry out integrative medical prevention and treatment of oral diseases, based on the inheritance and development of traditional medicine as well as the application of modern scientific, technique and medical theory, is of great significance in oral health maintenance. Certain achievements of the integrative traditional Chinese and Western medicine (TCM-WM) have been obtained in the recent several years in clinical and experimental studies and theoretic exploration of oral diseases, which are introduced briefly as follows. Diseases of Oral Mucosa 1. Recurrent aphtha By TCM syndrome differentiation, recurrent aphtha could be differentiated into various types,and the treatment may be scheduled depending on the syndrome types with the self-formulated prescriptions or classic recipes, single drug or in combination after modification, applied both internally and externally on the local lesion or by gargling, so as to enhance the efficacy by way of inner-outer concurrent administering.