Aug 31, 2025  
Fall 2025 Health Sciences Catalog 
    
Fall 2025 Health Sciences Catalog

HDM 602 - Nutrition


This course encompasses a life-span approach of nutritional requirements, with a focus on nutrition principles and concepts relative to oral health. The important relationships between nutrition and oral health will be discussed, including implications of nutritional deficiencies and inadequacies, effects of nutrients on periodontal disease, concerns of patients with special needs, and factors contributing to nutrition and oral related health disparities among minorities and underserved communities.

0-3 credits

Grading Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.)