Objectives: the present review aims to verify in the literature currently available, the influence of the practice of breastfeeding on the risk of early age caries. Materials and methods: A bibliographic search was conducted in the Pubmed and Scielo databases, between 2013 and 2018, category “free full text”, the inclusion criteria were case study articles, clinical trials, meta-analyzes, systematic reviews and literature reviews, using as terms of search ((caries OR dental caries OR dental decay OR decay OR decayed teeth OR tooth decay) AND (breastfed OR breast fed OR breastfeeding)), 62 articles were obtained, after reading, analysis and application of the exclusion criteria, 42 articles were discarded, leaving 10 articles that were considered the most relevant for the review proposed on the date of its realization. Results: The articles reviewed determined the close asociation bet...

Pregnancy is a period in the life of the woman where changes occur both in her body and in the environment. Due to the hormonal changes that the woman undergoes during the pregnant state, her oral health is affected, triggering a series of alterations at the gingival level, which causes the presence of oral diseases. The objective of the bibliographic review is to analyze and update knowledge about different oral pathologies in pregnant women. The Medline, SciELO and Google Scholar databases were searched for case studies, clinical trials, meta-analyzes, systematic reviews and literature reviews dealing with the different oral pathologies that occur in pregnant women in the last 8 years. The “Free Full Text” filter was used as well, searching the keywords: pregnant women, oral diseases, oral health and their English counterparts. Seventy-two articles were obtained in the initial sear...

El embarazo constituye un período de la vida de la mujer donde suceden cambios tanto de su cuerpo como en su entorno. Los cambios hormonales que sufre la mujer durante el estado de gravidez pueden llegar a afectar su salud bucal desencadenándose una serie de alteraciones a nivel gingival lo cual propicia la presencia de enfermedades bucodentales. Se busca mediante esta revisión bibliográfica actualizar conocimientos acerca de las diferentes patologías bucales en la mujer gestante. Se revisaron las bases de datos Medline, SciELO y Google Scholar en busca de estudios de casos, ensayos clínicos, metanálisis, revisiones sistemáticas y revisiones de literatura publicadas en los últimos 8 años, sobre las diferentes patologías bucales que se presentan en las mujeres embarazadas, empleando como palabras clave mujeres embarazadas, enfermedades bucodentales, salud bucal y sus homólogos...