Cosmetic Dentistry

Tooth decay is an infectious and transmissible bacterial disease. It is defined as a biological process of demineralization and re-mineralization dynamic, which means you can control the progression of the disease and make it reversible in its early stages.
Tooth decay causes the destruction of the tooth, by action of the acids resulting from microbial metabolism.It appears that microbial contamination begins at birth and the final plant was installed during the first months after birth.

Streptococcus Mutans is believed to be responsible for initiating the process of decay. There are periods of colonization called “window of infective” and are between 7 and 29 months and another between 7 and 12. Colonization of Mutans St. depends on the child and the donor has teeth: It is proven that it is usually the child’s mother is the one that is closer and if she has multiple foci, poor hygiene, is more likely the spread .
Since colonization by Mutans St. along the child’s life there are other risk factors for infection of tooth decay:
1) diet: excessive consumption of sugars
2) quality of oral hygiene
3) socio-economic conditions of the family environment