Nutrition and Oral Medicine [Hardcover]

This 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.?This?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.

Section 1 Synergistic Relationships between Nutrition and Systemic and Oral Health

Chapter 1 Impact of dietary? quality and Nutrition on General Health Status

Chapter 2 Pregnancy, Child Nutrition and Oral Health

Chapter 3 Age Related Changes in Oral Health Status Affects on Diet and Nutrition Status

Chapter 4 Obesity and Oral Health Status Across the Life Span

Section 2 Synergistic Relationships between Oral and Systemic Health

Chapter 5 Bidirectional Impact of Oral Health and General Health

Chapter 6 Impacts and Interrelationships between Medications, Nutrition, Diet and Olsè