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?
- 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?
- 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.
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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