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Nutrition and Oral Health: A Resource Guide
Nutrition and oral health are interrelated. Nutrition and diet can affect overall health and well-being as well as the development and integrity of the oral cavity and the progression of oral diseases. Likewise, oral disease impacts the ability to eat and nutrition status. Caries-causing bacteria in the mouth use sugar in food to make acid that can break down tooth surfaces and create tooth decay (dental caries).
This guide provides information to assist health professionals, program administrators, educators, parents, and others in promoting good eating and oral health practices to help prevent oral disease in pregnant women, infants, children, and adolescents.
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National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center
Georgetown University
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