O uso da ozonioterapia nas diversas especialidades da odontologia.

Abstract

Ozone therapy has been used successfully in medicine to treat different diseases for more than 100 years. As a possible new therapeutic advance, ozone is also being inserted in the different specialties of Dentistry, due to its healing properties. Ozone treatment mainly acts as analgesic, immunostimulant, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, biosynthetic and bioenergetic. Despite these advantages and being a low cost and noninvasive therapy, the current use of ozone is still restricted in dental treatments due to the possible side effects, some contraindications and the lack of sufficient studies on the subject. Therefore, this study aims to present a review of the literature, based on current journals, in order to demonstrate the effectiveness of the use of ozone as a complementary therapy in the different areas of dentistry. The results indicate that ozonotherapy is classified as a minimally invasive therapeutic option and can be used in conjunction with other therapies to enhance the results. New investigations, which determine the doses and the period of administration for the treatment of the most varied dental and oral pathologies, are important for the establishment of the therapy, determining well defined safe parameters of use.