[Epidemiology and prevention of dental caries].
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Dental caries is a chronic disease with low mortality. It is, though, a very common disease, responsible for much suffering, and is one of the most expensive diseases to treat. Within the EU, the cost of dental treatment, most related to dental caries, in 2011 was estimated to be 79 billion euro (1). Dental caries affects all ages; both primary and permanent dentitions. In many European countries, tooth extraction due to dental caries is the commonest reason for general anaesthetics in young children. Yet, it is a preventable disease; its cause is very well known but it is not prevented. Why? Because it is a diet-related lifestyle disease, where prevention requires change to entrenched, and often enjoyable, eating habits. Dental caries was rare before the rise in importation and consumption of sugar. Sugar causes much pleasure but also much disease – and not only dental caries. Strong commercial pressures encourage sugar consumption. However, there are signs that the tide is changing. Medical, dietetic and dental professions now agree on dietary policy. There is much better food labelling now in Europe, with sugars content displayed. In many countries, television advertising of high sugar products cannot be targeted at children, and provision of high sugar foods and drinks is not allowed in schools. Many parents are now well aware of what a healthy diet is and do their best to ensure their children benefit from this knowledge. However, there are many families where life’s pressures – financial, availability of time and food choice, and habit – are such that this is not possible. These differences have led to increased social inequality in oral health: the major challenge to those in population oral health. Ironically, it used to be the affluent who had most dental decay; now it is the opposite. This scenario is common to several chronic diseases, often with the same risk factors operating in these several diseases. This requires, what is now well-recognised as the ‘common risk
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Medizinische Klinik
دوره 67 5 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1972