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.

InhaltsangabeSection 1 Synergistic Relationships between Nutrition and Systemic and Oral HealthChapter 1 Impact of dietary  quality and Nutrition on General Health StatusChapter 2 Pregnancy, Child Nutrition and Oral HealthChapter 3 Age Related Changes in Oral Health Status Affects on Diet and Nutrition StatusChapter 4 Obesity and Oral Health Status Across the Life SpanSection 2 Synergistic Relationships between Oral and Systemic HealthChapter 5 Bidirectional Impact of Oral Health and General HealthChapter 6 Impacts and Interrelationships between Medications, Nutrition, Diet and Oral HealthSection 3 Relationship Between Nutrition and Oral HealthChapter 7 Oral Consequences of Compromised Nutritional Well BeingChapter 8 Nutrition and InflammationChapter 9 Nutrition Consequences of Oral Conditions and DiseasesChapter 10 Impact of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Practices on Oral and Nutritional HealthChapter 11 Emerging Research and Practices Regarding Nutrition, Diet and Oral MedicineChapter 12 NutrigenomicsSection 4 Select Diseases / Conditions with Know Nutrition and Oral Health RelationshipsChapter 13 Diabetes, Cardiovascular Diseases and Metabolic SyndromeChapter 14 Oral and Pharyngeal CancerChapter 15 Human Immunodeficiency Virus / AIDSChapter 16 Autoimmune DiseasesChapter 17 OsteoporosisChapter 18 Orofacial PainChapter 19 Oral Surgery and NutritionSection 5 Nutrition and Oral Medicine: Education and PracticeChapter 20 Approaches to Oral Nutrition Health Risk AssessmentChapter 21 Approaches to Curriculum Development in Nutrition and Dental EducationAppendices1. Oral Nutrition Risk Assessment Tools2. Diet Evaluation Tools3. Body Mass Index Tables4. Dietary Reference Intake Charts5. Cranial Nerve ChartDiet Education Tools