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DENH 2070 - Applied Biochemical Nutrition for the Dental Hygienist

Credits: 1
Hours/Week: Lecture 1
Course Description: This course includes the study of cellular biochemistry and general nutrition, including recent advances in nutrition as it relates to oral health. It also includes the application of this knowledge to nutritional counseling and dietary analysis of dental patients within the framework of their cultural, economic, and psychosocial environment.
MnTC Goals
None

Prerequisite(s): DENH 2010 , DENH 2015 , DENH 2020 , and DENH 2030  
Corequisite(s): None
Recommendation: None

Major Content
  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

Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course, students will be able to:

  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.

Competency 1 (1-6)
None
Competency 2 (7-10)
None


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