Relationship of Dietary Intake and Oral Health

Dental health education objectives train the patient towards daily dietary maintenance and to obtain an optimum oral hygiene through out life. Its role is to influence the attitude and behavior of the patient to maintain oral health and prevent oral infections and diseases Oral health programs have specific goals to achieve, as they seeks to prevent the initial occurrence of the disease (Primary prevention) and at the same time they aim to diagnose and arrest the infection through early detection and care (Secondary prevention). Nutrition is one of the essential requirements for good health and childhood is a time when eating patterns and food habits are established for the remainder of a person's life. Therefore, nutritional practices of childhood are at the very heart of the prevention of many future pathologic states'.