The 2025 Oral Health Barometer in Spain indicates that orthodontics is the tenth most common treatment among the Spanish population. For children, it is a key treatment, "especially for those in their growing years, who are replacing temporary teeth with permanent ones," notes Dr. Manuel Poveda, founder and clinical director of QuickSmile. The benefits range from correcting bone asymmetries in the maxilla and mandible to improving chewing habits.

Minute 77 at the Santiago Bernabéu. Lamine Yamal scores a goal that goes into the corner, silences the stadium and celebrates by showing off his braces, decorated especially for the occasion with blue and red stars and designed by the TwoJeys brand. The image goes around the world, but despite the display of the young Barça idol, braces like his are becoming less and less common in oral health trends, which have changed a lot in recent years; from the point of view of aesthetics, with the proliferation of invisible tooth aligners and, in the field of treatments, with the era of dental implants that are pushing false teeth aside, for example.

The state of our mouth has a direct impact on our health. Diseases that affect teeth and gums share risk factors with other pathologies, such as obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and some types of cancer. Despite being closely related, dentistry and medicine have advanced along different paths in Catalonia, and most patients who receive oral care do so outside primary care centres (CAP), that is, in private practices. For decades, different Governments of the Generalitat have tried, without success, to effectively incorporate dental services into the portfolio of public benefits.