Tackling Multimorbidity Starting from the Dental Chair: Why Lifestyle Medicine Matters in Everyday Dental Practice
Why Lifestyle Medicine Matters in Everyday Dental Practice explores how dental professionals can help address the growing burden of multimorbidity through routine clinical care. This webinar highlights the impact of nutrition, physical activity, smoking, alcohol, stress, and sleep on both oral and systemic health, with a focus on periodontitis as part of wider inflammatory disease. Attendees will gain practical, evidence-based strategies to identify lifestyle risks chairside, support behaviour change, and integrate preventive, whole-person care into everyday dental practice.
Why Lifestyle Medicine Matters in Everyday Dental Practice explores how dental professionals can help address the growing burden of multimorbidity through routine clinical care. This webinar highlights the impact of nutrition, physical activity, smoking, alcohol, stress, and sleep on both oral and systemic health, with a focus on periodontitis as part of wider inflammatory disease. Attendees will gain practical, evidence-based strategies to identify lifestyle risks chairside, support behaviour change, and integrate preventive, whole-person care into everyday dental practice.
Aims
To explore how Lifestyle Medicine principles can be integrated into everyday dental practice to support the prevention and management of multimorbidity through improved oral and systemic health.
Learning Objectives
Understand the links between periodontitis, systemic inflammation, and multimorbidity.
Identify key lifestyle factors influencing oral and general health outcomes.
Recognise opportunities for delivering brief lifestyle interventions in the dental setting.
Apply practical behaviour-change strategies within routine patient appointments.
Promote a preventive, whole-person approach to modern dental care.
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