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Oral Health and Nutrition

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Handbook of Clinical Nutrition and Aging

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Oral health contributes greatly to quality of life in older adults. Oral health can add to or hinder a person’s ability to sustain a satisfying diet, participate in interpersonal relationships and maintain a positive self-image. Oral health problems may lead to chronic pain and discomfort and alterations in diet. Deterioration in oral health is not an inevitable consequence of aging but results from the cumulative effects of lifestyle and environmental factors, medication use and disease.

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    Christine Seel Ritchie MD, MSPH

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Ritchie, C.S., Joshipura, K. (2004). Oral Health and Nutrition. In: Bales, C.W., Ritchie, C.S. (eds) Handbook of Clinical Nutrition and Aging. Nutrition and Health. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-391-0_23

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