Counceling dental patients
3 important questions on Counceling dental patients
What are things you need to take in consideration with a patient?
- Consider lifestyle of patient
- Food habits + cravings differ from patient tot patient
- 'Health diet' suggestions should be individualized
- Convenience + fastfood is heartily embraced
- Food habits + cravings differ from patient tot patient
- 'Health diet' suggestions should be individualized
- Convenience + fastfood is heartily embraced
- What are the 4 things you do when counseling dental patients about vitamins?
1. Inquire about
- nutrition and supplementation
2. Carefully examine
- soft + hard oral tissues
3. Individualize
- treatment plan
4. High alert for vitamin-related conditions if person is
- chronic dieter
- denture patient
- requires --> multiple medications for conditions
- high incidence of caries
- periodontal disease
- oral lesions
- or/and xerostomia
- nutrition and supplementation
2. Carefully examine
- soft + hard oral tissues
3. Individualize
- treatment plan
4. High alert for vitamin-related conditions if person is
- chronic dieter
- denture patient
- requires --> multiple medications for conditions
- high incidence of caries
- periodontal disease
- oral lesions
- or/and xerostomia
What are the things about minerals that you should mention when counseling patients?
1. Supplementation of minerals should be used with caution
2. Processed food --> creates concerns with:
- absorption of nutrients: minerals, vitamins
- imbalances in the body
- deficiencies of calcium, iron and zinc
- avoid excess salt
3. With food preparations --> minerals not destroyed by heat --> will leach out into cooking water
2. Processed food --> creates concerns with:
- absorption of nutrients: minerals, vitamins
- imbalances in the body
- deficiencies of calcium, iron and zinc
- avoid excess salt
3. With food preparations --> minerals not destroyed by heat --> will leach out into cooking water
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