Pregnant women who don’t get dental care have higher risk of preterm labor
October 4, 2008 by Marijke Durning, RN
Filed under Women's Health
It’s increasingly known in the medical community how important good dental care is to general health. Now, there’s even more evidence.
According to a study of 29,000 women, women who took care of their oral health by visiting the dentist before or during their pregnancy had a lower risk of giving birth to a premature or low birth weight baby than pregnant women who didn’t seek dental care at all.
Women who did receive dental care had a 6.4% risk of having a premature baby and a 3.6% chance of having a low-birth weight baby. Those who did not receive dental treatment had an 11% risk of premature babies and a 5.4% of having a low-birth weight baby.
You can read more about the study in this article, Dental Care Can Reduce Risk Of Preterm Birth By Nearly 50 Percent
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Tags: pregnancy blog, preterm labor, premature baby, preterm birth, dental care, low birth weight baby
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