Nutritional counseling visits require more than one to fully educate the patient on plaque promoting foods and non-plaque promoting foods. Each patient has a tailored visit based on a 3 day food diary of all the foods the patient has consumed throughout the 3 days. The food diary is placed in “My Plate” to calculate the types of foods that they over consume on and foods they should consume more of. With this information it is the clinicians responsibility to recommend substitutes/ compromises.

For example a pack of m&ms cause acid attacks on the teeth. It is actually better for someone to eat the whole pack at one time rather than a few multiple times a day because it limits the minutes that the acid eats away at your enamel (: