Does Propolis Help to Maintain Oral Health?

Table 1

Selected propolis activities according to dental specialties.

Dental specialities	Propolis activity	Type of studies	Year of publication	Authors
	(i) Component of toothpastes	Human	2001	Botushanov et al. [30]
	(ii) Component of daily mouthwash	Human	2007	Özan et al. [36]
Oral hygiene	(iii) Antibacterial (toothbrushes decontamination)	Laboratory	2012	Bertolini et al. [39]
	(iv) Component of preventive toothpaste and gel against gingivitis	Human	2012	Tanasiewicz et al. [47]
	(i) Antibacterial	Laboratory	2002	Santos et al. [44]
	(ii) Mucoadhesive gel against periodontitis	Laboratory	2007	Bruschi et al. [55]
	(iii) Prevents alveolar bone loss	Animal	2008	Toker et al. [57]
Periodontology and oral mucosa pathologies	(iv) Regeneration of periodontal ligaments	Laboratory	2011	Saxena et al. [64]
	(v) Mouthwash against gingivitis	Human	2011	Pereira et al. [48]
	(vi) Antiviral	Animal	2011	Shimizu et al. [60]
Oral surgery	(i) Storage media for avulsed teeth	Laboratory and Animal	2007 and 2010	Özan et al. and; Mori et al. [65, 66]
	(ii) Healing of oral surgical wounds	Animal	2012	Lopes-Rocha et al. [67]
Orthodontics	(i) Hasten a new bone formation at the expanded midpalatal suture	Animal	2012	Altan et al. [68]
Restorative; Dentistry	(i) Direct pulp capping	Human	2010	Parolia et al. [69]
	(ii) Treatment of dentin hypersensitivity	Laboratory	2011	Sales-Peres et al. [70]
Endodontics	(i) Antibacterial against root canals bacteria	Laboratory	2011 and 2012	Kayaoglu et al. and Mattigati et al. [71, 72]
	(ii) Temporary root canal filling after pulpectomy	Animal	2012	Ramos et al. [73]
Prosthetic; dentistry	(i) Antifungal	Human	2005	Santos et al. [74]
	(ii) Treatment of denture stomatitis	Human	2008	Santos et al. [75]