Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development
  • Year: 2019
  • Volume: 10
  • Issue: 11

Diet Counseling: Prevention for Early Childhood Caries

Intern (BDS), Institute of Dental Sciences, Siksha O Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

*Coressponding Author: Saswati Dhal, Intern (BDS), Institute of Dental Sciences, Siksha O Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India, e-mail: saswatidhal12@gmail.com

Online published on 27 March, 2020.

Abstract

Diet counseling plays a very important role for adopting a healthy lifestyle. Researchers suggested that diet counseling is neglected all over the world day by day. So that dentists are facing a lot of diseases in the oral cavity. Therefore, diet counseling is mandatory for all. This is more beneficial when this process begins earlier. The goal of the diet counseling is to get rid of harmful eating habits, to continue the balance diet and the avoidance of the diseases. The future eating habits can be shaped in a healthy manner by providing children nutrition education..though the parents are not well familiar with the harmful food and the harmful eating habits of their children, the duty of the dentist is to make the parents well educated about what to prefer for the children to have on their diet and what not to have. It is very prodigious to know what is harmful and what is useful for their child.

Keywords

Diet Counseling, Preschool Habits, Nutrition Education