Eugenol Clove Oil Eugenol Oil Essential Oil For Dental
short description:
Eugenol is used as a flavor or aroma ingredient in teas, meats, cakes, perfumes, cosmetics, flavorings, and essential oils. It is also used as a local antiseptic and anaesthetic. Eugenol can be combined with zinc oxide to form zinc oxide eugenol which has restorative and prosthodontic applications in dentistry. For persons with a dry socket as a complication of tooth extraction, packing the dry socket with a eugenol-zinc oxide paste on iodoform gauze is effective for reducing acute pain.
Benefits
Eugenol demonstrates acaricidal properties results showed that clove oil eugenol was highly toxic against scabies mites. The analogues acetyleugenol and isoeugenol demonstrated a positive control acaricide by killing the mites within an hour of contact. In comparison to traditional treatment for scabies which is treated with the synthetic insecticide permethrin and with the oral treatment ivermectin, a natural option such as clove is much sought after.