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Nutrition and Oral Health Marian-Vladimir
Constantinescu
DDS, MSc, PhD
Holistic Dental & Medical Institute
of Bucharest - ROPOSTURO
Bucharest, Romania
Editor: Gerry McKenna e-mail: dr.vladimir.constantinescu@gmail.com
Publisher: Springer Nature, Switzerland
Language: English
ISBN: 978-3-030-80525-8
Edition: 1/e
Books Review
Publish Year: 2021
Pages: 82, Illustrated
Price: € 139.09
A healthy diet is essential for good health and the maintenance and retention of natural
teeth as people age. Dr. Gerry McKenna, a clinical reader and principal investigator in the Cen-
tre for Public Health, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, UK, as editor of this book, explores the
relationships between oral health and nutrition in the 8 chapters of the book entitled "Nutrition
and Oral Health".
The book starts with nutritional considerations in children because good nutrition is essential for
optimal growth, development and maintenance of all tissues and organs in the body, including
the oral cavity. It also presents the most common cause of poor oral health in children and how
nutrition could help or worsen the situation.
The next chapters describe the ageing population and nutritional requirements of older adults
and how this could affect their oral health.
This book also discusses the relationship between periodontal disease and nutrition and helps
practitioners provide dietary advice to their patients.
At the end, the authors present the impacts of oral rehabilitation on nutritional status and strate-
gies for changing dietary behavior.
Dr. Gerry McKenna and his co-authors successfully achieves the aim of the book to present the
association between nutrition, diet and dental diseases and to deliver clear dietary recommenda-
tions for their prevention.
https://doi.org/10.25241/stomaeduj.2022.9(1).bookreview.3
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