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Diet And Nutrition in Oral Health

August 17th, 2009

This book called Diet and Nutrition in Oral Health is a great resource book on oral health and what you can eat to be healthy. Dentistry today is changing to meet the needs of a changing population. Life expectencies continue to increase, and the nature and demographics or oral diseases are changing. Associated oral conditions such as:

coronal caries,
root caries,
periodontal disease,
endentulism,
cancer,
AIDS, and
all oral infections,

all have nutritional implications.

The American Dental Association and the American Dental Hygienists' Association recommend that dental professionals "maintain current knowledge of nutrition recommendations as they relate to general and oral health and disease", and "effectively educate and counsel their patients about proper nutrition and oral health".

This book can serve as a quick reference and/or as a clinical manual to enable you to answer patient questions and to integrate nutrition into clinical practice as comfortably as you would fluoride and other preventive modalities. This book can also be used as a text, by reading the chapters and answering the questions posed in case studies to test understanding. For diet screening and guidance the book can also be used as a "how-to" manual.

Finally, the book can be used as a reference, by referring to those chapters relating to specific nutrition topics, life cycle groups, or health-related conditions, and referring to the last chapter and the appendic for helpful resources.

From the Back Cover

Led by renowned educator, Carole Palmer, an outstanding team of authors has assembled the most current, comprehensive resource on diet and nutrition in oral health. This indispensible resource highlights the breadth of nutrition's relevance while providing practical "hands-on" strategies for addressing oral health nutrition issues.

Features include:

Comprehensive, broad coverage that encompasses all nutritional implications for dental practice.
Life-span approach that details the basics of nutrition in health and disease, followed by detailed chapters on nutrition considerations from pediatrics to geriatrics.
Unique! Clinical application that allows material to be applied to real-life situations.
Case studies in each chapter that highlight the relevance of chapter principles to personal and patient health.
Outlines, goals, objectives, and "relevancy to dentistry" sections within each chapter.
Coverage of counseling skills.
Complete coverage of current nutrition issues as they apply to oral health including: osteoporosis, oral bone health, infection and immunity, and herbal remedies.

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