Castor and Reduced Gingival Index

• Efficacy of medicinal plant extracts as dental and periodontal antibiofilm agents: A systematic review of randomized clinical trials.

  • 2021-12
  • Systematic Review
  • Journal of ethnopharmacology 281
  • • Victoria Furquim Dos Santos Cardoso
    • Ricardo Haack Amaral Roppa
    • Carolina Antunes
    • Amanda Naiara Silva Moraes
    • Lucélia Santi
    • Eduardo Luis Konrath

  • PubMed: 34416298
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2021.114541

  2 Insights on

  • Reduced Gingival Index

  • High evidence

  Ricinus communis oil (3 studies), despite reducing microbiological counts and GI, did not prove to be better than the hypochlorite solution

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes