Periodontal Disease and Pregnancy Outcomes

An increasing number of studies are confirming an association between periodontal disease (PD) and adverse outcomes in pregnancy. PD places pregnant women at greater risk for preterm birth than alcohol consumption or smoking. This underscores the importance of offering dental screening to women who...

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Autores principales: Babalola, Dolapo A., Omole, Folashade
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2010
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3065885/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21490739
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/293439
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description An increasing number of studies are confirming an association between periodontal disease (PD) and adverse outcomes in pregnancy. PD places pregnant women at greater risk for preterm birth than alcohol consumption or smoking. This underscores the importance of offering dental screening to women who are pregnant or contemplating pregnancy and the need for physicians who provide obstetric care to be aware of the possible connection between poor dental health and poor pregnancy outcomes.
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spelling pubmed-30658852011-04-13 Periodontal Disease and Pregnancy Outcomes Babalola, Dolapo A. Omole, Folashade J Pregnancy Case Report An increasing number of studies are confirming an association between periodontal disease (PD) and adverse outcomes in pregnancy. PD places pregnant women at greater risk for preterm birth than alcohol consumption or smoking. This underscores the importance of offering dental screening to women who are pregnant or contemplating pregnancy and the need for physicians who provide obstetric care to be aware of the possible connection between poor dental health and poor pregnancy outcomes. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2010 2010-08-12 /pmc/articles/PMC3065885/ /pubmed/21490739 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/293439 Text en Copyright © 2010 D. A. Babalola and F. Omole. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3065885/
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