Nutrition and Oral Medicine (Nutrition and Health)

ABOUT THIS BOOK

· New and expanded chapters on orofacial pain, obesity and cardiovascular disease
· Addresses practice and research in this ever changing area
· Includes oral screening risk assessment tools

Nutrition and Oral Medicine, Second Edition addresses the complex, multifaceted relationships between nutrition and oral health, explores proposed relationships between oral, systemic and nutritional well-being and provides insights into interprofessional, comprehensive care for individuals. Chapters focus on diet, nutrition and oral health promotion and disease prevention across the lifespan, oral and dental diseases and disorders, oral manifestations of systemic diseases, and discussions of the synergy between oral tissues and nutrients. Cutting edge research issues regarding the relationship of individual antioxidants, trace elements, polyphenols and other nutrient substrates and oral health/disease, nutrigenomics, screening for nutrition and oral risk and other areas are covered in detail. Editors and authors include experts in nutrition and oral health from around the world. Nutrition and Oral Medicine, Second Edition is a invaluable resource for health professionals in the fields of nutrition and dentistry as well as other disciplines whose research, practice and education includes nutrition and oral medicine. It is an excellent resource for graduate level nutrition and dental students, dental and nutrition practitioners, educators and researchers as well as other health professionals.

Content Level » Professional/practitioner
Keywords » Oral Cancer - Oral Health - Oral Infections - Oral Surgery - Orofacial Pain
Related subjects » Dentistry - Food Science & Nutrition - Medicine - Public Health

CONTENTS

1 Impact of dietary quality and nutrition on general health status 3
2 Pregnancy, child nutrition, and oral health 17
3 Age-related changes in oral health status : effects on diet and nutrition 31
4 Impact of the environment, ethnicity, and culture on nutrition and health 45
5 Bidirectional impact of oral health and general health 63
6 Impacts and interrelationships between medications, nutrition, diet, and oral health 87
7 Oral consequences of compromised nutritional well-being 107
8 Nutritional consequences of oral conditions and diseases 129
9 Complementary and alternative medical practices and their impact on oral and nutritional health 143
10 Emerging research and practices regarding nutrition, diet, and oral medicine 167
11 Diabetes mellitus : nutrition and oral health relationships 185
12 Oral and pharyngeal cancer 205
13 Human immunodeficiency virus 223
14 Autoimmune diseases 241
15 Osteoporosis 261
16 Wound healing 273
17 Approaches to oral nutrition health risk assessment 287
18 Oral medicine and nutrition education 299
App. A Oral nutrition risk assessment tools 307
App. B Body mass index table 311
App. C Dietary reference intake charts 313
App. D Cranial nerve assessment 353
App. E Diet education tools 357