title: [Clinical and therapeutic aspects of early childhood caries and severe early childhood caries--clinical cases].
abstract: ECC (early childhood caries) and SECC(severe early childhood caries), as a particularization of the dental caries during the early childhood (0-3 years) and the middle childhood (3-6 years), generate important oro-dental problems, with long-term impact, psycho-somatic, psycho-aesthetic, and social-behaviour, in little children as in adults.
  
  
  METHODS
  35 subjects (20 girls and 15 boys), were evaluated, aged between 3-6 years old, diagnosticated with ECC and SECC. The children were evaluated clinical, paraclinical and psycho-sociological in the Clinic of Paediatric Dentistry, Iasi, Romania.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In this article, we present 3 clinical cases that show the implication of the socio-emotional factors that produce the early childhood caries, pacient C.L., 6 years old, pacient C.F., 5, 6 years old, and pacient A.D., 6 years old.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In this study we have evaluated a heterogen structure with major impact on caries risk, clinical variability of the carioactivity in decidual dentition. It is known that more than 64% non-cavitary lesions that appear in a 2 year-old child develop to cavitary lesions in less than a year.
authors.affiliation: Facultatea de Medicină, Dentară, Disciplina de Pedodonţie, Universitatea de Medicină si Farmacie Gr.T. Popa Iaşi.
authors.forename: Dana
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Maxim
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Danilă
authors.forename: Carina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Balcoş
mesh_terms: D001903:Bottle Feeding / Q000009:adverse effects; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003731:Dental Caries / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008311:Malocclusion, Angle Class I / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D012307:Risk Factors; D016896:Treatment Outcome