DENH 2070 - Applied Biochemical Nutrition for the Dental Hygienist

1. Healthy eating habits
2. Digestion and absorption of carbohydrates
3. Proteins, lipids, and metabolism
4. Biochemistry of nutrients
5. Vitamins, minerals, and nutrients for calcified structures
6. Vitamins, minerals, and water for oral tissues and glands
7. Nutritional requirements across the lifespan
8. Factors affecting food intake including age, culture, and health status
9. Systemic diseases and oral health
10. Nutritional counseling the dental patient and use of resources
11. Dental caries and prevention
12. Dietary analysis

1. explain the role diet and nutrition play in oral health and disease.
2. identify the role of cariogenic foods in the caries process.
3. carry out a dietary analysis.
4. describe the functions, deficiencies, surpluses and toxicities, of micronutrients and macronutrients.
5. demonstrate culturally appropriate nutritional counseling techniques for oral and systemic health promotion.
6. identify food sources that contain quality micronutrients and macronutrients.
7. distinguish how culture, age, and medications influence nutritional considerations.
8. outline the roles of macronutrients and micronutrients in metabolism, energy use, health, oral and systemic disease.

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