Exam 14: Nutritional Requirements During Growth and Development and Eating Habits Affecting Oral Health

Dental hygienists working with new parents, infants, and children should be familiar with normal growth and development patterns and effectively communicate nutritional needs. Match each nutritional and oral term with its most appropriate description. -Natural ingredient in breast milk related to brain and retinal development

Infants both with cleft palates are high risk of developmental delays. While holding the infant in the sitting position during feeding may be easier, it results in nasal regurgitation.

Each of the following is true of human breast milk except one. Which one is the exception?

A mother asks about healthy snacks for her three children under 4 years old. All the following are wise choices the dental hygienist can recommend except one. Which one is the exception?

Well-conducted trials support probiotics in infant formulas for their role in preventing:

Dental hygienists working with new parents, infants, and children should be familiar with normal growth and development patterns and effectively communicate nutritional needs. Match each nutritional and oral term with its most appropriate description. -Contributes to ongoing cognitive development

Soy protein-based formulas are considered superior to cow's milk protein-based formulas for managing infantile colic, fussiness, and prevention of atopic disease. Comparisons of various commercial formulas with human breast milk consistently indicate that breastfed infants had a slight advantage offer all other types of artificial formulas.

A mother's food choices during pregnancy will affect her child's health, but have little bearing on later preferences because flavors from the mother's diet rarely transmit through amniotic fluid.

Sticky carbohydrate foods such as candies, cookies, and pastries are cariogenic, but crackers and raisins are not because crackers and raisins contain less processed, more natural ingredients.

Dental hygienists working with new parents, infants, and children should be familiar with normal growth and development patterns and effectively communicate nutritional needs. Match each nutritional and oral term with its most appropriate description. -Caries protective physical barrier

Which snack should the dental hygienist encourage to decrease incidence of dental caries? (Select all that apply.)

Dental hygienists working with new parents, infants, and children should be familiar with normal growth and development patterns and effectively communicate nutritional needs. Match each nutritional and oral term with its most appropriate description. -The most common developmental disorder of children

Dental hygienists working with new parents, infants, and children should be familiar with normal growth and development patterns and effectively communicate nutritional needs. Match each nutritional and oral term with its most appropriate description. -Preference for sweet foods

Each of the following feeding tips provided by the dental hygienist are considered sound except one. Which one is the exception?

Human breast milk provides distinct advantages over commercially produced formulas because the infant's system is not fully developed.

Iron-rich food or a daily low-dose oral iron supplement should be initiated at what age?

To help prevent early childhood caries (ECC), the dental hygienist should recommend he infant:

The best way to prevent osteoporosis is through building bone mass during what stage of life?

The slow childhood growth rate accelerates with pubescence until the rate is as rapid as that of early infancy. During pubescence, growth of long bones, secondary sexual maturation, and fat and muscle deposition create an increased nutrient requirement.

Which of the following is true of protein requirements for infants? (Select all that apply.)