Caries is the disease most prevalent in the human race. That is, the disease that more people suffer.
It affects all human beings irrespective of their age, gender or race.
Have a higher incidence in people of lower socio-cultural level (for poor hygiene and increased consumption of Carbohydrates between meals). It is also more common in women than in men.
It is a huge source of suffering and socioeconomic cost.
It was a rare disease in antiquity. In Europe from Roman times its incidence was so alone, 10-20% of the population.
In the eighteenth century and reached to 40-50%.
Since the mid-eighteenth century to the present, its growth has been dramatic, reaching 100%. This was due to arrive from the Caribbean sugar cane, which introduces a lot of sucrose in the diet, as well as changes in lifestyle.
Today in most developed countries after many years of prevention, it has been possible to decrease the prevalence rates of caries. Especially in the Nordic countries, where the school eight years have declined to about 68% those indexes.
Tags: CARIES. DEFINITION, CAUSES, socioeconomic cost.
