Use Of ‘TILAPIA’ As Therapeutic Agent In Oral Mucosal Burns: An Unprecedented Proposal

Water bodies offer plenty of natural resources, which are procured and utilized in the manufacturing of materials or as novel medicines, employed in medical and dental practice. Among sponges, corals, fishes, etc one such promising source is the ‘Tilapia fish'. It is predominantly farmed for the consumption and production of curative biomaterials. As oral physicians or dental practitioners, we encounter many oral lesions and wounds in regular practice, ‘burns' being one of them. Tilapia skin and its collagen are being utilized in the resolution of dermatological burns. Since the branch of oral medicine encourages innovative ideas and research work in the treatment of challenging oral lesions, hereby, this article aims to communicate the idea of its feasible application in oral burns and alike lesions, making Tilapia a neoteric healing agent, keeping in mind the great biological properties it possesses.