Dental considerations

3 important questions on Dental considerations

- What should you consider when evaluating a patients diet dairy?

- Which suggestions can u make to the patient?

With evaluating:
- considering food choice (high or low fat)
- most lipids are dairy or meat

1. Suggest low fat food sources
- half full milk
- low fat cheese
- lean cuts of meat
- 1 time a week --> oily fish

2. Suggest mono + polyunsaturated cooking oils

- What is the relation with toothless and Cv-Disease?

- What is the relation with periodontal disease and high fat?

Tooth loss
- higher risk cardiovascular disease

Omega 3 = beneficial to health
- discuss fish conception
- not supplement (anticoagulants or aspirin)

Periodontal disease
- bacteria in dental plaque biofilm --> can cause blood clots --> when in bloodstream --> through inflammation in blood vessels

--> Encourage more fish
--> food containing MUFA + PUFA

Fats reduce the caries rate (= unclear = hypothesis)

- Give at least 3 ways it would be possible for fats to do so.

1. Some fatty acids grow lactic acid bacteria --> streptococcus organisms are inhibited (coconut oil)

2. Oral food retention = reduced by fat intake

3. Fats lubricate teeth --> preventing acid to enamel

4. Fats may produce film on foodparticels and prevent partial digestion of food in mouth

5. Delays gastric emptying --> enhancing fluoride absorption + increasing tissue fluoride concentration

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