Dental caries and dietary habits in school going children.

Dental caries (DC) is a local disease, which occurs on hard tissues of teeth leading to its destruction by oral microorganisms. Various environmental factors affect dental caries prevalence, which are diet, especially sucrose rich; demographic factors such as age and sex and improper brushing habits. Caries is a biosocial disease, as living standards improve the severity of the disease usually increases. In the industrialized countries dental caries is one of the most ubiquitous and expensive diseases. In developing countries where many of the basic needs are not provided for, the problem of dental disease receives low priority.