The best treatment for any desease is prevention.

All sicknesses can be prevented.

Classical examples are lung cancer and miocardy heart attacks related to the smoking habit.

Prevention and early diagnoseare, the milestones of preventive medicine.

Mouth deseases are no exception.

Preventive Odontology's main objetive is to create obstacles that will interfiere in the development of buccal/dental deseases.

The benefits will be increase the sooner the preventive program is put into action or the earlier a desease is detected.

The first step in preventing a desease is knowing what it is and how it works, here you will find a small description of the main mouth pathologies and how to prevent them.

Odontology is a part of Medicine that studies the entire stomatognathic, meaning mouth and all other neighburing structures that relate to it.

Odontology as a speciality, has been divided into many subspecialties, and this is the reason why it is our duty to inform the web user of the specif topic involved in each one, as to facilitate the introduction and review of the possible odontological problems consulted at this WEB PAGE.

This chapter corresponds to PREVENTIVE ODONTOLOGY.

Loss of dental pieces due to cavities, periodontal deseases and traumatisim

CONSERVATIVE ODONTOLOGY, is made up of two parts, Preventive and Restorative.

RESTORATIVE ODONTOLOGY, is based on the restauration or repare of damages produced to the dental pieces by different types of deseases or traumatisms.

PREVENTIVE ODONTOLOGY , is based on preventing or avoiding the appearence of different deseases, or at least, to decrease the degree of damage or destruction of the buccal/dental structures in case they are present.

In general, prevention can be apllied to all odontology's subspecialities, but the next few chapter will be dedicated to the major deseases that affect our buccal/dental system.

The most frecuent odontological deseases, and at the same time the most destructive, are: cavities adn periodontal desease.

In other chapters topics like mouth cancer, teeth's malposition (dental malocclusion), dyes and dental colorations, dental wearing, etc.