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Caries: What is tooth decay?

When caries is a disease that takes place in the teeth, it is in caries an infectious disease. The concept of caries comes from Latin and means something like “rottenness, decay,” because with the disease are the rotten teeth and rotten.

Through everyday activities such as kissing and use the same cutlery caries bacteria are passed from parents to children. The distribution of caries bacteria is almost unstoppable, the bacteria multiply in the mouth, therefore, can also be decayed teeth.

In the first respect, the bacteria Streptococcus mutans type are responsible for tooth decay, this is the consumption of carbohydrates such as sugar. This means if plaque is present can cause any food with a certain amount of sugar to the painful and ugly caries.