Speaker: Marina D. McGraw, Program Director/Associate Professor of NOVA Dental Hygiene 

Title: What your mouth may say about your health 

 The overall content will address how nutrition and oral health have a bidirectional relationship. 

The discussion will include the following key points:  

• How nutritional deficiencies may affect oral health regarding growth, development, healing, and diseases of the oral cavity.  
• Signs that can occur in the oral cavity that might indicate nutritional challenges. This will be connected to dental hygiene as well.