A Common Beverage with Miraculous Oral Health Benefits – A Review on Green Tea
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Nature has bestowed on us a very rich botanical wealth and a large number of assorted types of plants grown in different parts of country. Plants are the richest resource of drugs in traditional systems of medicine. Green tea is one of the most ancient and popular therapeutic beverages consumed around the world. Green tea in its purest form has always influenced human health from generations and day by day scientific evidences throughout the world are making people aware of health benefits associated with this herbal drink. Though green tea is not officially recognized as a medical agent, it is one of the most researched plant-based remedies with possible benefits like promotion of cardio-vascular health, cancer prevention, skin protection, antioxidant activity and many more including improvement of various oral health conditions. This review highlights some recent facts with relevance to current status of green tea benefits in oral health.
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