title: Factors Associated with Receipt of Pre-pregnancy Preventive Dental Care Among Women in West Virginia: Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) Survey 2009-2010.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine the association between sociodemographic, economic and health-related lifestyle factors and receipt of pre-pregnancy dental cleaning in West Virginia.
  
  
  METHODS
  A population-based secondary data analysis was conducted using the 2009-2010 West Virginia Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) dataset. The study population consisted of 3050 women who answered the survey question about pre-pregnancy dental cleaning.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Approximately 47% of the participants visited a dentist during the 12 months before pregnancy. Results from the logistic regression model showed that pre-pregnant Non-Hispanic white women were more likely to get their teeth cleaned compared to women from other racial/ethnic backgrounds (OR = 1.75; 95% CI: 1.01-3.04). Women with more than a high-school education (OR = 1.79; 95% CI: 1.22-2.62), young women < 20 years of age (OR = 2.75; 95% CI: 1.86-4.06), women with private health insurance (OR = 2.65; 95% CI: 1.98-3.55) and women who had intended pregnancy (OR = 1.3; 95% CI: 1.04-1.64) were more likely to have dental cleaning before pregnancy compared to women with less than a high-school education, women between the ages of 20-29, uninsured women and women who had unintended pregnancy, respectively.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Identifying factors associated with dental cleaning can aid healthcare providers and policy makers in developing approaches to promoting oral care among women of childbearing age.
authors.forename: Amna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Umer
authors.forename: Zelalem Teka
authors.initials: ZT
authors.lastname: Haile
authors.forename: Halima
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ahmadi-Montecalvo
authors.forename: Ilana R Azulay
authors.initials: IR
authors.lastname: Chertok
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003729:Dental Care; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income; D007348:Insurance, Health; D008019:Life Style; D017533:Marital Status; D017057:Medically Uninsured; D011159:Population Surveillance; D016742:Preconception Care; D011247:Pregnancy; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome; D049168:Pregnancy, Unplanned; D017149:Private Sector; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012907:Smoking; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014903:West Virginia; D044465:White People; D055815:Young Adult