PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Merglova, Vlasta
AU  - Hecova, Hana
AU  - Stehlikova, Jaroslava
AU  - Chaloupka, Pavel
TI  - Oral health status of women with high-risk pregnancies
DP  - 2012 Dec 12
TA  - Biomedical papers
PG  - 337--341
VI  - 156
IP  - 4
AID - 10.5507/bp.2012.045
IS  - 12138118
AB  - Aim: 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.
Conclusion: In this study, women with complications during pregnancy had severe gingivitis and needed more frequent dental treatment than those in the control group.