A healthy child becomes a healthy adult that depends on various factors and digestion to efficiently absorb nutrients playing a major role. The digestion of food is central to human nutrition, health and wellbeing. The function of the jaws and teeth primarily being to transform the food into a more digestible form by combining it with saliva that contains digestive enzymes which is very important in the digestive process and absorption of nutrients into the blood stream. Recognizing the importance of oral health is the key to the healthy development of children and detection of oral conditions must be made mandatory when encountering malnutrition.
KEYWORDS: Oral Disease, Nutrition, Malnutrition, Digestion, Oral Health, Early Childhood Caries
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