title: [Systematic review about dental caries in children and adolescents with obesity and/or overweight].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Obesity and overweight (O/OW) in children have reached epidemic character and both are a risk factor for chronic serious health problems. This study was perfomed in order to research the relationship between O/OW and dental caries.
  
  
  METHODS
  [corrected] A SR was conducted between 2007-2011 in tertiary information sources (Trip, Cochrane and NGC), secondary (PubMed, IME, MEDES IBECS) and primary (reference checks).
  
  
  METHODS
  Patients (children 0-18 years), risk factor (O/OW) and outcomes (primary: caries, secondary: other oral pathology).
  
  
  METHODS
  Author, year, country, type of study, patient age, cases (with O/OW) and controls (body mass index-BMI-normal or low), comorbidities, socioeconomic status, prevalence of caries and other results in oral health.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Forty-seven documents were located, 37 of them met the criteria of the RS, temporarily distributed in 2007 (6 articles), 2008 (6), 2009 (5), 2010 (11) and 2011 (9). They presented a very wide degree of heterogeneity (in patients, intervention, primary outcome and type of design), which does not allow to apply quantitative synthesis of data (meta-analysis). Studies are conflicting regarding the relationship between BMI and frequency of dental caries (DMFT, dmft).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Systematic review allows dentists and pediatricians to know the relationship between O/OW and dental caries.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Odontopediatría. Facultad de Medicina y Odontología. Universidad de Valencia. Valencia.
authors.forename: María
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: González Muñoz
authors.forename: Milagros
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Adobes Martín
authors.forename: Javier
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: González de Dios
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D003731:Dental Caries / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D009765:Obesity / Q000150:complications*; D050177:Overweight / Q000150:complications*