The Dental hygienist's guide to nutritional care /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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St. Louis :
Elsevier/Saunders,
[2015]
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| Edition: | Fourth edition |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book. |
Table of Contents:
- Overview of healthy eating habits
- Concepts in biochemistry
- The alimentary canal : digestion and absorption
- Carbohydrate : the efficient fuel
- Protein : the cellular foundation
- Lipids : the condensed energy
- Use of the energy nutrients : metabolism and balance
- Vitamins required for calcified structures
- Minerals essential for calcified structures
- Nutrients present in calcified structures
- Vitamins required for oral soft tissues and salivary glands
- Fluids and minerals required for oral soft tissues and salivary glands
- Nutritional requirements affecting oral health in women
- Nutritional requirements during growth and development and eating habits affecting oral health
- Nutritional requirements for older adults
- Food factors affecting health
- Effects of systemic disease on nutritional status and oral health
- Nutritional aspects of dental caries : causes, prevention, and treatment
- Nutritional aspects of gingivitis and periodontal disease
- Nutritional aspects of alterations in the oral cavity
- Nutritional assessment and education for dental patients.