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The Integrated Medicine and periodontics is attracting most of the researchers now a days. Alternative medicines related to periodontology such as Inner engineering and herbal medicines have been extensively using in this decades. The ancient Indian system of health care concentrated on views of man and his illness and focused on treating these illness through traditional and natural healing systems, Indian natural products these from traditional medicinal plants which are reported in classic texts like Ayurveda and Charaka Samhita have contributed to the "boom" in drug discovery. It is a well-documented fact that natural remedies through Ayurveda owe their origin to India and this science was popularly known as the "science of life." Ayurveda aims at ensuring a healthy mind and healthy body by not only providing cure of illness but also elaborating the correct the in-balances and method for maintenance of health. Ayurveda attempts to correct the in-balances arrangements of bodily humours and to restore equilibrium conditions by the application of all spiritual and material resources available to man."

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Kripal, Krishna
Professor Dr Krishna Kripal. B Sc, BDS, MDS, FAGE He has graduated from College of Dental Surgery, Mangalore.He completed his Masters in periodontology from M R Ambedkar Dental College, Bengaluru, India. He has several publications in indexed national and international journals and has also contributed for a herbal bone regenerative material.

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