Required knowledge of nutritional status assessment for dental professionals and effect of prosthodontic treatments

Abstract

The arrival of a super-aging society has shifted the structure of diseases to lifestyle-related diseases and action to sarcopenia and frailty are strongly required in Japan today, therefore it is essential that dental professionals have knowledge about assessing nutritional status. This article outlines the nutritional knowledge that dental professionals should know to address the issues of malnutrition and overnutrition, including methods for assessing nutritional status and the relationship between nutritional status and prosthetic treatment intervention. Keywords: nutritional status assessment, prosthetic treatment