Oral health status of women with high-risk pregnancies.
OBJECTIVE
The aim of this study was to investigate the oral health status of women with high-risk pregnancies.


METHODS
A case-control study of 142 pregnant women was conducted. The case group included 81 pregnant women with high-risk pregnancies, while 61 women with normal pregnancies served as controls. The following variables were recorded for each woman: age, general health status, DMF, CPITN, and PBI index, amounts of Streptococcus mutans in the saliva and dental treatment needs. The Mann-Whitney test, Kruskal-Wallis test, t-test and chi-squared test were used for statistical analyses.


RESULTS
Statistically significant differences were detected between the PBI indices and dental treatment needs of the two groups. Out of the entire study cohort, 77% of the women in the case group and 52% of the women in the control group required dental treatment.


CONCLUSIONS
In this study, women with complications during pregnancy had severe gingivitis and needed more frequent dental treatment than those in the control group.
Dentistry Department, Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. merglovav@fnplzen.cz
Vlasta
V
Merglova
Hana
H
Hecova
Jaroslava
J
Stehlikova
Pavel
P
Chaloupka
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D009059:Mouth Diseases; D009909:Oral Health; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications; D018566:Pregnancy, High-Risk