The dietary habits are important common etiological factors for both obesity and dental caries. The objective of this article was to review general aspects of obesity and dental caries focusing on the changing from breastfeeding to family feeding as an important common problem for the development of both diseases. Obesity has been defined as a nutritional disturbance with results in several correlated diseases. The obesity related dietary habits could result in an increment of dental caries because both the amount and the frequency of sucrose ingestion are important factors associated with the aetiology of the oral disease. Thus, health professionals should increase parent's awareness about the immediate effects of obesity upon child's and adolescent's both general and oral health.
obesity; dental caries; oral health; childhood; adolescent; child nutrition