Gastronomic and wellness sciences, cultures and politics

• Nutrition and Caries • Early childhood caries • Ministerial Guidelines on the Promotion of Oral Health in Developmental Age • Oral microbiota and systemic diseases • Odontostomatological aspects in pediatric malabsorption diseases • Oral health in children and empowerment tools: education and communication

The course aims to provide the basic knowledge related to the physiology of the oromasticatory apparatus, including the protective factors related not only to the biochemical properties of saliva but also to the mechanical ones of food lubrication and of salivary clearance. Tools will be provided on the importance of proper nutrition in preventing the risk of caries and of periodontal disease. Therefore, the importance of introducing correct eating habits since early childhood, limiting the consumption of sugars, and the importance of preventing pathologies linked to non-nutritional habits, such as early childhood caries. Finally, the aim of the course is to transmit the principles that define how a healthy diet during childhood, adolescence and adulthood can prevent not only the onset of dental pathologies but above all the onset of chronic cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and obesity.

lectures by teacher.

67% of lessons frequency

he lessons are held according to the frontal mode with active interaction of the student having as main objective the learning of the contest carried out in the classroom during the same development of the topics covered