Preventive Dentistry Third Year

1. Nutritional Risk Assessment
PDS 332

2. Lecture outline
• Nutritional screening and assessment in risk
reduction
• Screening and assessment components
– Dietary measures
– Physical measures
• Anthropometrics
• Physical findings
– Biochemical data
• Interpretation of findings
• Summary

3. Learning objectives
– Examine the rationale for the nutritional
screening and assessment activities in dental
settings.
– Differentiate elements associated with
nutrition and dietary assessment.
– Describe alternative approaches to aspects of
nutritional screening and assessment.
– Review examples of interpretation and
translation of nutritional/dietary findings.

4. Introduction
• Nutritional screening and assessment (NSA)
• WHO identified five stages where the effects of
diet and nutrition on chronic diseases:
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5. Introduction
• What are the diseases that are related to
diet and nutrition?

6. The interaction between oral health
and diet and nutrition

7. Nutritional screening and
assessment in risk reduction
• What is NSA ?
• What is Screening ?

8. Nutritional screening and
assessment in risk reduction
• What are the tests included in the
screening process?

9. Nutritional screening and
assessment in risk reduction
• What is the purpose of the nutritional
screening ?

10. Nutritional screening and
assessment in risk reduction
• What is nutritional assessment?
– Where can this be done?
• Malnutrition:
– Forms of malnutrition

11. Screening and assessment
components
• Assessment of nutritional status generally
includes, clinical interpretation of what?

12. Dietary measures

13. Anthropometrics
• What are they?
• Name some:

14. Physical findings
• In the oral cavity………..

15. Biochemical data
• Techniques used to measure nutritional
status include what?

16. Interpretation of findings
• To be covered during the clinical session
in PDS 372