We has been done many surveys, for proofing that use Siwak is very effective to take care about your health, teeth and gums, for example
TO COMPARE OF USING TEETH INFLUENCE AMONG THE ELEMENTARY STUDENTS IN Saudi Arabia BETWEEN USED " MISWAK" AND NORMALLY TOOTH BRUSH From the survey that has been done to some elementary school students can be simplified that a bad influence of using Siwak only 23 %, compare to another group that use normal tooth brush was 45 %. That survey examined 124 elementary school students, their age are between and 16 years, 66 students use Miswak and 58 students use normal toothbrush. It can be detected that the analysis data from the survey gave an indication that bad influences to the teeth are lower to the students who use “Miswak" compare to students who use normal toothbrush.
THE DIFFERENT GROUPS USED SALVADORA PERSICA TO COMPARE WITH THE GROUPS USED CHLORHEXIDINE GLUCONATE Random numbers assigned the patients to two groups. One group (9 patients) was to rinse with Salvadora Persica toothpaste slurry while the other group was to rinse with chlorhexidine gluconate.

 

  • The patients who were assigned, toothpaste containing Salvadora Persica extract were asked to rinse with the toothpaste slurry for 1 minute twice a day for 7 days. The toothpaste rinses were proportionally prepared following the method described by Addy and his colleagues in 1983. Each patient was given a 10-ml disposable syringe, a 10-ml stoppered tube, and a tube of toothpaste and requested to thoroughly mix 2 ml of paste with 10 ml of water immediately before use.

  • The patients who were assigned chlorhexidine gluconate 0.2% were asked to rinse with 10 ml of the mouth rinse for 1 minute twice a day for 7 days. At the end of this second week, the same procedures were repeated as on day 8; bacteriological smears were taken, all indices were read, and teeth were scaled and polished. All patients were asked to continue with their normal brushing for a period of 3 weeks

After 3 weeks of back to normal brushing, all patients were scaled and polished, rendering them calculus and plaque free. Instructions were given to maintain a high standard of oral hygiene for a further 7 days. At the beginning of the second phase of the trial the same procedures carried out on day I were repeated. All patients were asked to rinse with water twice a day for 7 days while refraining from all oral hygiene measures. At the end of this week, the same procedures were repeated as on day 8; bacteriological smear were taken, all indices were read and the teeth were scaled and polished. All subjects were requested to use the mouth rinse they had not used before, following the rinsing instructions previously explained for that mouth rinse. All oral hygiene measures were stopped during the week and at the end of the week the same procedures were repeated as on day 8. In conclusion, the comparison between toothpaste containing Salvadora Persica and an efficient anti plaque agent such as chlorhexidine has shown some of the merits, which this new toothpaste may have. Furthermore, it is recommended that the purified active ingredient/s of Salvadora Persica should be evaluated when available, without the toothpaste additives, for it's anti plaque activity. Considering that, Salvadora Persica toothpaste when used as a mouth rinse without a toothbrush, exhibited some features comparable to those of chlorhexidine, it would appear that its acceptance by the general public for daily use with a toothbrush would prove at least as effective as chlorhexidine in reducing plaque and gingivitis.

 

 

  

Since antiquity, the human had already pay attention to their teeth. There’s many ways that human being  take care to their teeth. For example, they use :

toothpicks,
chew sticks,
tree twigs,
linen strips,
birds feathers,
animal bones and
Porcupine quills were recovered.

From all of the items mention above  the many of is using tree twigs to clean their teeth, which popular with called "Miswak". More than 50 of kind plants (that stick to made miswak) as a tools for cleaning the teeth which had use for many country and culture in the world.

 

But the only most popular stick to made health your teeth and mouths, is obtained from a plant called Salvadora Persica that grows around Mecca and Middle East area in general. Salvadora Persica L is publicly known in Arab, Africa and India as a "cleaner teeth tree", used as a toothbrush and twig chew. It was uses as cleaner stalk since more than 1000 years.

Wherever that extracts from that plants produce sulfur as of a lot of main element. Beside that, pharmacology data is showing antibiotic, anti-inflammatory and activates hypoglycemic, that use against bacterial in the mouth.

Suggested that healthy mouth and cared teeth through traditional way for African has produced huge non-cryogenic food, together with mechanism clean act that uses chewing stalk, rather than consequences from the activity of special antibacterial from that stalk its self.

In the Middle East this type of chewing stick is known as "Meswak" or " Siwak" and there is strong belief that its use reduces plaque and gingivitis. The therapeutic action could be due to certain chemical constituents such as fluorides, silicones, alkaloids, essential oils, tannins, resins, gum and anthraquinones.

Reference to sticks that were frayed at one end by chewing or tapping and used for teeth cleaning can be found in the Talmud as the quesum, as the siwak, miswak and arak in the 8th and 10th century Arabian works of Kitab al Bajan by Gahiz, the Dinawarki by lbn Sida, the Muwasha by Al Washsha, as well as in the 17th century Persian Holiatilamotagin by Majesi, the Indian Kama Sutra by Vatsyayana, and as Koyoji in Japan.

In the day, and for several centuries there after according to Majesi in the Holiatilamotagin (1661), many attributes were given to the use of the Siwak, including making the teeth white and fragrant, strengthening and giving vigor to the gums and teeth as well as clearing the mind, increasing the memory, quenching the bile, drying the phlegm, sharpening the eyes, stimulating the appetite, reheving constipation and increasing the ability to do good.

To the more orthodox Muslim, the use of the chewing -stick is still an important part of his ritual of work ship. The most widely used tree twigs since an early time is the " Siwak" or " Miswak". It is widely used among Moslems after Prophet Mohammed realized its value as a device, which should be used by Moslems to clean their teeth. In this respect our Prophet is considered the first dental educator in proper oral hygiene.

The reasons for this can be traced to the prophet Muhammad, who has been quoted as saying: " You shall clean your mouth, for this is a means of praising Allah ", " The Siwak is an implement for cleansing of teeth and a pleasure to Allah", and " I am ordered (by Allah) to use the Siwak so that I take it as if it has been written down for me (as a special commandment)".

Usually, children learn to use the Siwak at about 6 years of age from their parents and siblings and will continue to do so unless they are introduced to tooth brushing during their formal schooling.