
Shereen Hafez Ibrahim Mohamed
Cairo University , EgyptTitle: Caries Free Society: Fighting Dental Caries by Nutrition
Abstract
Caries affecting
teeth is one of the most widespread problems in public health worldwide. Being
considered as the major oral problem, it affects 2.4 billion people worldwide;
about 60-90% of children and may reach to 100% of adult population. It is a
disease that is considered multifactorial and is affected by many variables
such as the patient’s general health, the oral hygiene measures, the type and
amount of diet and type of flora of the oral cavity, factors present in the
saliva and fluoride exposure. Caries has been combated using various products,
methods and strategies. However, it is rather important to concentrate on patient
comfort and make oral health care simple and effective. This can be achieved by
preventing exposures to risks that cause injury or disease, and changing
dangerous or unhealthy behaviors that lead to disease, and by making the
resistance higher, against the disease. Amongst primary preventive level, there
are health promotion aspects including diet planning, dental health education
and awareness program, and diet counselling. In this lectures, several recently
published articles will be discussed.
Biography
Shereen Hafez
Ibrahim is the assistant professor of conservative dentistry, faculty of dentistry
Cairo University Egypt and editor of textbook entitled:” Nanotechnology in
Conservative Dentistry” published by Elsevier. Editorial advisory board member
for Heliyon Journal (Dentistry Section), Editorial board member at Mathews
Journal of Dentistry, International member at ADA (American Dental Association)
and International member at Digital Dentistry Society (DDS), PhD degree in
Operative Dentistry (2010), Master degree in Dental Science (2007, Bachelor of
Dental Medicine & Surgery (BDS, 2001), Supervisor for more than 75 master
and PhD thesis till present at conservative dentistry Cairo University and many
international publications, PhD program coordinator, PhD course coordinator of
nanotechnology, program director for internship program at conservative
dentistry department, peer reviewer and mentor at Publons Academy.