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Book Detail
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Dental Care and Oral Health Sourcebook
Williams, Angela L, E.
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Previous ISBN (13): 9780780815308
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Synopsis:
Oral health is essential to overall health. Good oral health includes more than maintaining healthy teeth and gums. Oral health also involves avoiding craniofacial conditions that can affect the face and mouth. These conditions can lead to systemic health conditions such as infections, immune disorders, cancer, or heart and lung disease. While there has been significant improvement in the oral health of Americans over the past 50 years due to increasingly effective prevention and treatment efforts, some challenges remain and new concerns have emerged. One important emerging oral health issue is the increase of tooth decay in preschool children. In addition, lack of access to dental care for all ages remains a public health challenge. Dental Care and Oral Health Sourcebook, Sixth Edition offers updated information about mouth and tooth care guidelines for effective hygiene, nutrition, and decay prevention. Facts about tooth pain, dental fillings, orthodontia, and other endodontic treatments, and dental implants are described. Facial trauma and cleft palate treatments are also discussed. Disorders such as bad breath, temporomandibular joint and muscle (TMJ) disorder, mouth sores, jaw disorders, and health conditions that impact oral health are addressed. The book concludes with guidelines for finding and financing dental care, a glossary of dental care terms, and directories with further information about dental care and oral health services. The book is divided into parts and chapters where parts focus on broad areas of interest and chapters are devoted to single topics within a part. Part I: Taking Care of Your Mouth and Teeth begins by outlining key steps for good dental health and provides an overview on the anatomy of the mouth. Information on home care products used to clean teeth and remove dental plaque is provided. The impact of nutrition and fluoride is described along with information about mouth injuries. Oral health for old
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