Alex Mira

It's already been acknowledged for years that drinking red wine benefits both hearts and colons due to the concentrated presence of polyphenols.

Now, thanks to the efforts of the research team composed of Adelaida Esteban Fernandez, Irene Zoraquin Peña, Maria De Ferrer, Alex Mira, Begonia Bartolome, Dolores Gonzalez-De Llano, and M. Victoria Moreno-Arribas, their paper Inhibition of oral pathogens adhesion to human gingival fibroblasts by wine polyphenols alone and in combination with an oral probiotic, published on February 28, 2018 in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, has offered new insights into the effects that polyphenols might yield to the field of dentistry.

The Power of Polyphenols While more research into the power of polyphenols needs to be performed in the future, existing discoveries have proven to be exciting and revealing.

Polyphenols were first discovered to be an antioxidant compound, which scientists have learned are excellent protection against free radicals.