Book review - Propolis in Oral Healthcare

Propolis in Oral Healthcare
James Fearnley and Dr Philip Wander

This is a small pale blue and white book, A5 size with 66 pages published by The Dispensary Press www.thedispensary.org.uk and it very much does what it says on the tin, to quote the Ronseal advert. The book is divided into 3 sections; Section 1 is General application of propolis in oral health, Section 2 Using propolis to treat disease and Section 3 is Some dental research over the last 25 years.
There is a foreword by Prof. R Ireland by the introduction and the About the Authors paragraphs are on the back cover below a couple of paragraphs to briefly describe what bee propolis actually is. Where it comes from, why it's made etc, etc. This theme is expanded upon at the front of section 1 to give a broader picture.

Section 1
The first section is entitled General Application of Propolis in Oral Health
This is a short section and it goes through which propolis product is the best one to use for different pre treatment dental treatments such as when taking an antibiotic for an abscess or when you have a temp filling, that kind of thing. 

Section 2
This section lists 24 different dental conditions that people can suffer from. The language throughout the whole book is clear and simple without being simplistic but the clarity is really noticeable in this section. The page for each condition has 4 sections:
What's Happening - What the specific condition is, symptoms you can expect
Conventional Treatment - What the dentist will do and why
Propolis Treatment - Which specific propolis product can be used, why and how to apply
Homecare - Everything that you as a patient can do to alleviate, treat or prevent said condition. Propolis is mentioned a lot in this section as you can imagine but it isn't the only thing which is mentioned.     

Section 3
The last section is about dental research within the last 25 years and lists 21 different pieces of research that have taken place over the last 25 years. Most if not all of those pieces of research involved propolis in some way such as: 'Preliminary report on the effects of propolis in wound healing in dental pulp'
The information given for the various research articles includes the names of all the researchers involved, which institution they are affiliated with/work for, the journal the article was published in (Harvard ref style I think) and an abstract of the work.

I am very glad I bought this little book. This will no doubt become a very useful part of my library, not only for the propolis aspect but because of the simple but very clear explanation of the different dental conditions that it lists.

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