The Importance of Oral Health during Pregnancy: A review

Abstract

Pregnancy is a transient physiological state which brings about different hormonal changes in a woman's body. These effects are generalized and there are various oral changes as well. There are a number of especially important alterations in the periodontal conditions within the oral cavity. These changes have important implications as they have been known to cause adverse pregnancy outcomes. Better knowledge about these scenarios among health care professionals and women would go a long way toward avoiding or minimizing these adverse outcomes. Health education is an important tool in creating awareness among pregnant women regarding improvement of their oral health. Awareness among the health professionals and good inter-departmental collaboration would help toward a more efficient treatment of these pregnancy related conditions.

Sociodemographic Differences in Health Awareness and Oral Health in Pregnant Women

“…Early dental health promotion can deliver a further important contribution to the oral health of mother and child [38]. Independent of which concept of early dental health promotion is considered, close interdisciplinary cooperation appears essential [33,36,38,39]. Currently there is not yet a firmly established interdisciplinary prophylaxis concept throughout Germany for pregnant women or women planning pregnancy.…”

Saúde Bucal na gestação e suas implicações para a gestante e feto: perspectivas do enfermeiro durante o pré-natal

“…Os neonatos prematuros têm risco de morte muito maiores que neonatos a termo e os sobreviventes têm riscos de morbidade a curto e médio prazo. Prematuros sobreviventes ao parto e período de internação na Unidade de Terapia Intensiva podem ter conviver com graus variados de sequelas e incapacidades, com prejuízos no crescimento e neurodesenvolvimento (Brasil, 2011;OMS, 2012 A associação existente entre a gravidez e doenças periodontais é conhecida há muitos anos e vários estudos relatam que a doença periodontal representa um fator de risco para o parto prematuro (Dias et., 2005;Feldens et al, 2005;Fernandes et al, 2005;Sallum et al, 2005;Moimaz, 2006;Zanatta et al, 2007;Vieira et al, 2010;Saini et al, 2010;Armitage, 2013;Ide e Papapanou, 2013;Sanz et al, 2013;Vt et al, 2013;Wang et al, 2013;Borgo et al, 2014;Huang et al, 2014;May, 2014;Varadan e Ramamurthy, 2014;Zi et al, 2015;Dhabhai, 2016;Ilheozor et al, 2017;Marla et al, 2018; entre outros).…”

“…Apesar de supormos que a saúde bucal não está sendo vista, como prioridade pelos profissionais médicos e de enfermagem, a gestante não deve descuidar da sua higiene bucal. Cabe também aos enfermeiros, orientar sobre os cuidados para com a saúde bucal, que esses devem ser iniciados tão logo se inicie o pré-natal e que contribuirão para a saúde geral da gestante e para, também, prevenir problemas bucais nas crianças (Marla et al, 2018).…”

Educational Program to Enhance Pregnant Women's Knowledge about Dental Care and Periodontitis Outcomes

“…Subsequent to the educational session the majority of the participant's women had knowledgeable about dental care & periodontitis pregnancy outcomes. [19,20] This could be due to the clarity and consistency of the educational session and proper media used which increased the women's knowledge and recognition about the study subject.…”

“…No % -Age (in years) 20 Figure (3) shows that, there was statistically significant difference between women's knowledge of the pre/post and post/retained regarding total knowledge score (P-value <0.001).…”