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Correct nutrition is crucial for the oral health of the child during infancy, childhood, and adolescence. The mother’s nutrition during pregnancy and breastfeeding can also influence the oral health of the newborn and child.
The World Health Organization (WHO) Sugar Guidelines for Dental Health and Obesity Prevention, also shared in the Joint European Organization for Caries Research (ORCA) / European Association of Dental Public Health (EADPH) Symposium on Sugar and Oral Health (2016), highlight how an excessive intake of free sugars in total energy intake can not only increase the likelihood of overweight and obesity, but also impair oral health and increase the cariogenic risk.
An unbalanced diet, the lack of a correct intake of macro- and micronutrients, and the intake of high amounts of free sugars in the diet could alter the oral microbiota and saliva and expose the growing patient to oral diseases such as alterations in dental development, anomalies of enamel structure, alteration of eruption times, periodontal disease, and dental caries.
In fact, a diet rich in sugars and incorrect habits during infancy can increase the risk of onset of Early Childhood Caries (ECC), with impairments of the stomatognathic system, auxological and psychological disorders. These eating habits in infancy may be the premise in the same adolescent subject for a protracted incorrect diet characterized by intake of high sugar-rich foods and drinks with high cariogenic power both during main meals and in between meals.
This Research Topic aims to be an opportunity for interdisciplinary study (Public Health, Pediatrics, Pediatric Dentistry, Human Nutrition and Food Sciences) on eating behaviors and habits, lifestyles, nutritional status in relation to oral health and oral diseases in children. In this context, it is essential to consider nutrigenomics, in order to have a genetic-nutritional-dental multidisciplinary approach.
Submissions are welcome to include the following themes and adopt multi-, inter-, and transdisciplinary perspectives:
• Analysis of eating behaviors/eating habits and oral health in children;
• Analysis of eating behaviors/eating habits and oral diseases (dental caries, ECC, periodontal diseases, dental erosion, fluorosis) in children;
• Analysis of eating behaviors/eating habits and oral health/diseases in specific pediatric medical condition (e.g. coeliac disease);
• Analysis of eating behaviors/eating habits and oral health/diseases in specific socioeconomic status;
• Analysis of eating behaviors/eating habits and oral health/diseases in specific immigrant populations;
• Analysis of eating behaviors/eating habits and oral health/diseases in particular diet (e.g. vegetarian, vegan diet);
• Analysis of nutrition status (underweight, normal weight, overweight, obese) and oral health/diseases.
The Editors of this Research Topic will consider the following article types: original research, epidemiological studies, case-control studies, clinical trials, and review articles.
The World Health Organization (WHO) Sugar Guidelines for Dental Health and Obesity Prevention, also shared in the Joint European Organization for Caries Research (ORCA) / European Association of Dental Public Health (EADPH) Symposium on Sugar and Oral Health (2016), highlight how an excessive intake of free sugars in total energy intake can not only increase the likelihood of overweight and obesity, but also impair oral health and increase the cariogenic risk.
An unbalanced diet, the lack of a correct intake of macro- and micronutrients, and the intake of high amounts of free sugars in the diet could alter the oral microbiota and saliva and expose the growing patient to oral diseases such as alterations in dental development, anomalies of enamel structure, alteration of eruption times, periodontal disease, and dental caries.
In fact, a diet rich in sugars and incorrect habits during infancy can increase the risk of onset of Early Childhood Caries (ECC), with impairments of the stomatognathic system, auxological and psychological disorders. These eating habits in infancy may be the premise in the same adolescent subject for a protracted incorrect diet characterized by intake of high sugar-rich foods and drinks with high cariogenic power both during main meals and in between meals.
This Research Topic aims to be an opportunity for interdisciplinary study (Public Health, Pediatrics, Pediatric Dentistry, Human Nutrition and Food Sciences) on eating behaviors and habits, lifestyles, nutritional status in relation to oral health and oral diseases in children. In this context, it is essential to consider nutrigenomics, in order to have a genetic-nutritional-dental multidisciplinary approach.
Submissions are welcome to include the following themes and adopt multi-, inter-, and transdisciplinary perspectives:
• Analysis of eating behaviors/eating habits and oral health in children;
• Analysis of eating behaviors/eating habits and oral diseases (dental caries, ECC, periodontal diseases, dental erosion, fluorosis) in children;
• Analysis of eating behaviors/eating habits and oral health/diseases in specific pediatric medical condition (e.g. coeliac disease);
• Analysis of eating behaviors/eating habits and oral health/diseases in specific socioeconomic status;
• Analysis of eating behaviors/eating habits and oral health/diseases in specific immigrant populations;
• Analysis of eating behaviors/eating habits and oral health/diseases in particular diet (e.g. vegetarian, vegan diet);
• Analysis of nutrition status (underweight, normal weight, overweight, obese) and oral health/diseases.
The Editors of this Research Topic will consider the following article types: original research, epidemiological studies, case-control studies, clinical trials, and review articles.
Keywords: nutrition, oral health, oral diseases, overweight/obesity in childhood, sugar intake, eating habits
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