Dental Hygienists Guide to Nutritional Care
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.
Features:
* Is written specially for dental hygienists by two registered dietitians--one 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 conditions--diabetes, 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.
| Author: |
J. R. Davis, Cynthia A. Stegman |
| Edition: |
1 |
| ISBN: |
0721650147 |
| Publisher: |
Harcourt |
| Binding: |
Hardbound |
| Year Published: |
1998 |
| No. of Pages: |
484 |
| Illustrations: |
155 |
| Back Cover: |
| Not Available |
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| Contents: |
SECTION I: Orientation to Basic Nutrition
* Overview of Healthy Eating Habits
* The Alimentary Canal: Digestion and Absorption
* Carbohydrate: The Efficient Fuel
* Protein: The Cellular Foundation
* Lipids: The Condensed Energy
* Utilization 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
* Water and Minerals Required for Oral Soft Tissues and Salivary Glands
SECTION II: Considerations of Clinical Nutrition
* Nutritional Requirements Throughout the Life Cycle and Eating Habits Affecting Oral Health
* Nutritional Requirements Affecting Oral Health in Females
* Other Considerations Affecting Nutrient Intake
* Effects of Systematic Disease on Nutritional Status and Oral Health
SECTION III: Nutritional Aspects of 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 Counselling for the Dental Hygiene Client
Appendix A: Median Heights and Weights and Recommended Energy Intake
Appendix B: Synopsis of Mineral Elements
Appendix C: Sources of Reliable Nutrition Information
Appendix D: Recommended Journals and Newsletters
Appendix E: Answers to NQ
Appendix F: Dietary Reference Intakes, 1997
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