A Comparison Between the Al-Qanoon Fi al-Teb Principles in Dental Treatments and Contemporary Dentistry

Background: Reviewing the golden age of Persian traditional medicine reveals boundless descriptions of biologic, anatomic and therapeutic details of diseases. Avicenna’s al-Qanoon fi al-Teb is a precious traditional book on medicine that contains definite explanations about treatment of oral disease. Objectives: The aim of this study was to summarize the Avicenna’s point of views on the treatment of dental disease in comparison to modern dentistry. Methods: The major topics of dentally related parts of al-Qanoon fi al-Teb was reviewed and compared with modern contemporary dentistry. Results: Very interesting similarities were found between Avicenna’s methods and contemporary dental therapies. This study documented that Avicenna’s perspectives are great sources for further investigations in dentistry. Conclusions: This research reveals unstudied parts of Avicenna’s methods in dental treatments.