Children’s caries The Spanish Society of Paediatric Dentistry (SEOP) responds to 10 common queries about children’s dental caries that we discuss here. Caries affects 80% of the world’s population and, of these, 10% are boys (about 600 million children).  What is caries and what causes it? As indicated by the SEOP: “Tooth decay is a chronic…

We start this article by quoting a very real sentence from Dr. Esmeralda Herrero, to take it to our daily terrain: teeth. Many times parents ask and question whether it is worth correcting some small problems that we detect when they are so young and still have milk teeth. The answer is clear: YES, because…