Main description:

This important book reviews the interaction between nutrition, diet and dental health and the incidence of dental caries. Divided into four accessible sections the book takes the reader from the history of dental caries, through epidemiology to dietary components, concluding with preventative strategies. A global team of authors have been brought together under the editorship of Professor Martin Curzon and Professor Monty Duggal, to provide essential reading for all nutritionists, dietitians, dentists, health scientists and undergraduate and postgraduate students studying in this area.

Contents:

PART I. Dental Caries in Man. Chapter 1. Diet, food and nutrition. Chapter 2. Caries and teeth : historical aspects. Chapter 3. Theories of the aetiology of caries related to the use of diet. PART II. Epidemiologic and Experimental Evidence for the Role of Diet in Dental caries in Man. Chapter 4. Anecdotal and descriptive studies. Chapter 5. Epidemiological and intervention studies. Chapter 6. Experimental studies. PART III. Dietary components and Dental caries. Chapter 7. Sugars. Chapter 8. Starches and fruits. Chapter 9. Dietary and bacterial interactions. Chapter 10. Dietary trace elements. Chapter 11. Dietary fluoride. Chapter 12. Other dietary components that inhibit dental caries. PART IV. Diet in Dental caries in Man - Prevention strategies. Chapter 13. Behavioural aspects of diet and dental caries. Chapter 14. Dietary counselling. Chapter 15. At risk groups - the Elderly. Chapter 16. At risk groups - Adolescents. Chapter 17. At risk groups - Babies and infants. Chapter 18. Diet and dental caries in a modern ever changing...