TABLE OF CONTENTS
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INTRODUCTION: Patients & Their Dentists.......................1
Today's healthcare environment has undergone a new sense of self-empowerment, where patients can increasingly seek more decision-making responsibility
I. A HEALTH HISTORY....................................................7
HUMAN DIET - BRIEF TIMETABLE
CURRENT PERSPECTIVES
II. TOOTH DECAY: A Preventable Disease.................17
THEN AND NOW
ALL FOODS ARE NOT CREATED EQUAL
THE FUTURE OF FIGHTING TOOTH DECAY
THE SCIENCE BEHIND TOOTH DECAY
III. ORAL HYGIENE BASICS.........................................27
HOW TO BRUSH USING THE "MODIFIED BASS METHOD"
TOOTHBRUSH CHOICES
TOOTHPASTE CHOICES
DENTAL CHECKUPS
IV. PERIODONTAL DISEASE........................................35
A SUBVERSIVE PROBLEM
PERIODONTAL TREATMENTS
PATIENT'S DECISION
PERIODONTAL DISEASE "LINKS"
COLD SORES
V. BREATH MINTS CAN CAUSE BAD BREATH.............45
A COMMON CONDITION
YOUR TONGUE AND YOU
VI. SMOKING AND ORAL DISEASE..............................51
45.1 MILLION AMERICANS SMOKE
ORAL CANCER SCREENING AND ORAL BIOPSY