The Dental Hygienist's Guide to Nutritional Care

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Saunders, 1998 - Medical - 457 pages
This unique, new reference provides dental hygienists with basic nutrition principles, and applies these principles to dental hygiene practice. It explains how to effectively assess clients, and then educate them about well-balanced dietary habits for their oral health as well as their overall well-being. The guide reflects a holistic, collaborative approach to the nutritional needs of clients with diverse backgrounds and nutrient requirements.
  • Is written specially for dental hygienists by two registered dietitiansone a dental hygiene educator with 10 years of experience practicing dental hygiene.
  • Provides information on assessing nutritional status, identifying client goals, and communicating nutrition recommendations to dental hygiene clients.
  • Discusses nutritional problems encountered throughout the life cycle and various cultural food patterns to enable readers to provide care for all ages of dental hygiene clients and cultural groups.
  • Presents vitamins and minerals based on their physiological function to indicate nutrients involved when dental problems are evident.
  • Reviews the food guide pyramid, and ties it in with Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
  • Gives Health Applications that provide current information for common nutrition-related conditionsdiabetes, osteoporosis, vegetarianism.
  • Personalizes information with helpful case studies, followed by care plans, so the reader can put it all together.
  • Highlights key concepts with colour photographs, over 220 illustrations, and descriptive tables.
  • Offers chapter objectives and a Test Your Nutrition Quotient (NQ) for each chapter, and concludes with a Student Readiness section containing questions for chapter review.
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    Contents

    Overview of Healthy Eating Habits
    3
    Digestion and Absorption
    32
    The Efficient Fuel
    52
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    About the author (1998)

    Cynthia Stegeman has extensive experience in the fields of nutrition and dental hygiene. She is a registered dental hygienist, registered dietitian, and certified diabetes educator and currently serves as a dental hygiene program chair at University of Cincinnati.

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