Diet, Nutrition and Dental Health

Martin Curzon is Emeritus Professor of Child Dental Health at the University of Leeds, UK. Monty Duggal is Consultant and Head of Paediatric Dentistry at the Leeds Dental Institute, UK.

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...