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This is not the ordinary academic text to have in your library. It’s the result of the commitment of the Author, a practicing clinician who has focused his career on practical solutions to treat thousands of cases.
The first aim of the book Food, Eating and Nutrition: A multidisciplinary approach was to explore the common ground between all the professionals working within or around the area of the mouth and on the mechanics of eating food such as dentists, speech pathologists, lactation consultants or otolaryngologists. However, this project, over time, thanks to the contributions of many specialists, has come to include the impact of food on the whole body by focusing on functions, organs and on how eating keeps us in health or in disease.
A real understanding of the patient’s problems, leading to the preparation of an effective care plan, requires an attitude centered on a comprehensive approach: on this basis, the work examines the correlations between orofacial functions, occlusion, and posture in order to better understand what the correct diagnostic and therapeutic approach is to address problems of various natures and severities. Myofunctional therapy used in the treatment of the so-called myofunctional disorders, or abnormalities of the mobility and tone of the orofacial musculature.
