title: The impact of current alternative herbal remedies on dental patient management.
abstract: With the recent boom in holistic and herbal medicine and an ever-growing trend among the general population to refer to herbal remedies as an alternative to traditional pharmaceutical therapies, dental health care providers must be aware of the wide consumption of such products and understand their nature. It becomes imperative, therefore, to include questions regarding the use of herbal preparations as a matter of routine in the patient's drug history, since this may impact a safe dental patient care delivery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Diagnosis and Management, University of the Pacific, School of Dentistry, San Francisco, CA 94115, USA.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Karimi
mesh_terms: D000529:Complementary Therapies; D003729:Dental Care; D006801:Humans; D008487:Medical History Taking; D010946:Plants, Medicinal