Grape Products and Oral Health

Grape products and oral health.

Oral diseases, including dental caries, periodontal disease, and tooth loss, affect the majority of the population and can affect a person's overall health. Raisins contain polyphenols, flavonoids, and high levels of iron that may benefit human health. However, their oral health benefits are less well understood. We hypothesized that raisins contain antimicrobial phytochemicals capable of suppr...

Antimicrobial Natural Products in Oral Health

Oral diseases continue to be a major health issue worldwide. These are including oral and pharyngeal cancers and oral soft and hard tissue lesions, orofacial disorders, tooth loss, dental caries and periodontal diseases. These diseases are among the most important oral health problems. Also some of them cause significant health concerns. Despite general progress in the general health status of ...

Editorial: Natural Products in Oral Health

Grape products and cardiovascular disease risk factors.

Many in vivo trials have evaluated the effects of grape products on different CVD risk factors. Most published studies have dealt with some specific aspects of mechanisms of grape flavonoid action or have focused only on one product, such as wine. The aim of the present paper is to review trials dealing with grape products and CVD published during the last 13 years (seventy-five trials). Polyph...

Oral health self-care products: realities and myths.

Since an acid attack can be extremely severe, could erosive attacks kill cariogenic bacteria, thus preventing caries in people with erosion? Mark Wolff: Several individuals with an erosion process show very low caries rates, but this is not necessarily related to the elimination of cariogenic bacteria. These bacteria are aciduric and survive at very low pH conditions, so that situation would no...