Pediatrics is the medical specialty that studies children and their diseases.

The term comes from Greek paidos (child) and iatrea (healing), but its content is much higher than the cure of diseases of children, as the pediatric studies both for healthy children and the sick.

Chronologically, pediatrics covers from birth through adolescence.

Within it are distinguished several periods: neonatal (first four weeks), infant (1-24 months old), preschool (1-6 years), school (6-12 years) and adolescent (12-18 years).

The nursery is one of the specialties of medicine. It means "child care"and comes from the Latin puerilis (child) and culture "culture", that is, the art of parenting.

So today we speak of scientific child care, which seeks the ultimate aim of resilience, ie the individual's ability to succeed in life despite adversity.

Studying social pediatrics healthy or sick child in their relationship with their community or society.

The dentistry is the branch of dentistry that studies diseases of the mouth in children.

The current trend is to merge all these meanings in a single term, pediatrics.