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====== Diagnosis of oral diseases ======
====== Diagnosis of oral diseases ======
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''Vāta''-predominant oral disease:
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[[Vata]]-predominant oral disease:
There is dryness, roughness, ununctuousness, shifting pain, black, reddish discoloration, salivation and coldness, loosening of teeth, pulsation/throbbing sensation, piercing and tearing pain.[119]
There is dryness, roughness, ununctuousness, shifting pain, black, reddish discoloration, salivation and coldness, loosening of teeth, pulsation/throbbing sensation, piercing and tearing pain.[119]
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''Pitta''-predominant oral disease:
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[[Pitta]]-predominant oral disease:
It is characterized by thirst, fever, eruptions, burning sensation in the palate, feeling of fumes in oral cavity, inflammations/ ulceration, different types of pain and various type of discoloration except white and redddish. [120]
It is characterized by thirst, fever, eruptions, burning sensation in the palate, feeling of fumes in oral cavity, inflammations/ ulceration, different types of pain and various type of discoloration except white and redddish. [120]
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''Kapha''-predominant oral disease:
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[[Kapha]]-predominant oral disease:
Itching, heaviness, pallor, sliminess, unctuousness, anorexia, stiffness, excessive salivation, nausea, poor digestion, drowsiness and dull ache. [121]
Itching, heaviness, pallor, sliminess, unctuousness, anorexia, stiffness, excessive salivation, nausea, poor digestion, drowsiness and dull ache. [121]
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''Tri-doshaja'' oral disease:
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Tri-[[dosha]]ja oral disease:
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All the above signs and symptoms may be seen which are caused by the simultaneous aggravation of all the three ''doshas''.
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All the above signs and symptoms may be seen which are caused by the simultaneous aggravation of all the three [[dosha]].
These oral-diseases are classified to be of sixty-four types, depending upon the location, pathogenic substratum/ tissue element, signs and symptoms and their names. [122]
These oral-diseases are classified to be of sixty-four types, depending upon the location, pathogenic substratum/ tissue element, signs and symptoms and their names. [122]