Nutrition Final
Nutrition Knowledge Quiz
Test your understanding of essential nutrition concepts relevant to health, dietary needs, and oral care. This comprehensive quiz covers various topics including vitamins, nutrients, and their importance in maintaining overall wellness.
- Assess your knowledge on key dietary guidelines.
- Learn more about nutrition's role in oral health.
- Challenge yourself with multiple-choice questions!
- Regular defecation
- Increase stool bulk
- Increases muscle tone of digestive muscles
- Slows starch hydrolysis
exception?
All of the following are characteristics of _________in saliva.
- It can decrease the risk for caries
- Saliva is super saturated with this vitamin
- In saliva it provides a buffering action
- Saliva is a source to mineralize demineralized enamel
- Prevention of night blindness
- Involved in tooth development
- Growth of soft tissue and bone
The listed above are all importance of which vitamin?
- More than 400 over the counter and prescription medications identify xerostomia as a possible side effect
- Patients should have frequent re-care appointments to monitor oral conditions
- Over-the-counter antihistamines often exacerbate xerostomia-related conditions
- Patients might experience a burning sensation while eating spicy foods
- Chewing and swallowing of dry foods can be difficult
Mineralization is the deposition of organic elements on an ORGANIC matrix. Nutrition during pregnancy has a direct correlation with mineralization of primary teeth.
- Presence of an etiologic agent
- Susceptibility of the host
- Resistance of the host
- Environmental factors
Behaviors are usually from lower socioeconomic groups with less than a high school education.
Eating disorder typically defined as persistent ingestion of non-food substances.
THE MENTIONED ABOVE ARE:
- Carry a water bottle around during the day
- Use an alcohol-free mouthwash for rinsing after eating
- Use lip balm to help keep lips moist
- Use a humidifier to maintain humidity in the air
- Use non-nutritive sweeteners
Low pH levels of sports and energy drinks resulting from citric acid content can cause irreversible damage to teeth. Damage can occur when pH level reaches critical level at 5.5.
List the messages of MyPlate:
- Trackers can help analyze food intake
- Vegetables and fruit should fill half the plate
- Whole grains should occupy ¼ of the plate
Mechanically altered diet allows the ease of chewing and includes foods such as cheese, mashed potatoes, and boiled vegetables. Ex: the ideal daily diet during the beginning of a patient’s orthodontic treatment is the mechanically altered diet.
Xylitol is a sugar alcohol. Aids in preventing tooth decay because oral bacteria are unable to ferment it.
Meat in MyPlate ALWAYS contains what?
Early childhood caries is the presence of one or more decayed, missing, or filled teeth in a child 5 years of age or younger. The first teeth affected by childhood caries are maxillary incisors.
Food insecurity is the state of being without reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food. It affects moslty single mother.
- Monosaccharides
- Disaccharides
- Polysaccharides
- Triglycerides