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Approaches to Curriculum Development in Nutrition and Dental Education
Nutrition education as a component of interprofessional pre- and postdoctoral dental education and continuing dental education is important in order to tra...
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Oral Consequences of Compromised Nutritional Well-Being
Dental structures are influenced by nutritional status only during the period of tooth formation. Thereafter, deficient nutrition may influence the support...
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Obesity and Oral Health Across the Lifespan
Oral health care professionals’ roles in health promotion and disease risk reduction includes addressing overweight/obesity in oral health even though the ...
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Open AccessValidation of a multifactorial risk factor model used for predicting future caries risk with nevada adolescents
The objective of this study was to measure the validity and reliability of a multifactorial Risk Factor Model developed for use in predicting future caries risk in Nevada adolescents in a public health setting.
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Open AccessInequalities of caries experience in Nevada youth expressed by DMFT index vs. Significant Caries Index (SiC) over time
With the increasingly polarized distribution of dental caries among children and adolescents, the usual DMFT measure has become a less meaningful population descriptor. To re-focus on identifying the high cari...
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Open AccessThe effects of the HEALTHY study intervention on middle school student dietary intakes
The HEALTHY study was designed to respond to the alarming trends in increasing rates of overweight, obesity, and type 2 diabetes mellitus in youth. The objective of this analysis was to examine the effects of ...
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Open AccessA case-control study of determinants for high and low dental caries prevalence in Nevada youth
The main purpose of this study was to compare the 30% of Nevada Youth who presented with the highest Decayed Missing and Filled Teeth (DMFT) index to a cohort who were caries free and to national NHANES data. ...
