Oral Health and Nutrition: Do Your Patients Understand the Connection?
When it comes to nutrition, patients may not be aware of hidden sugars in foods, the effects of fermentable carbohydrates such as crackers and chips, and how these foods are retained in the mouth or “stick” to the teeth. Our advice to “avoid sticky foods” is inadequate because patients don’t entirely understand the tooth retention of food, how it sticks to their teeth.
Patients also don’t always know about the acidity levels of foods and drinks and the negative impact these can have on their oral health. The lack of certain vitamins, minerals, and nutrients can result in oral conditions such as angular cheilosis, burning sensation in the mouth, papillary atrophy, altered taste, and dysphagia. Identifying a vitamin deficiency through early oral symptoms can lead to intervention before serious systemic damage can occur. Evidence supports the role nutrition plays in periodontal health...
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Patients also don’t always know about the acidity levels of foods and drinks and the negative impact these can have on their oral health. The lack of certain vitamins, minerals, and nutrients can result in oral conditions such as angular cheilosis, burning sensation in the mouth, papillary atrophy, altered taste, and dysphagia. Identifying a vitamin deficiency through early oral symptoms can lead to intervention before serious systemic damage can occur. Evidence supports the role nutrition plays in periodontal health...
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