Dental Care

Care Of Teeth In Pregnancy

Patient Material:

Although pregnancy is not a disease, it must have some important considerations when dealing with dental care to a woman during pregnancy. In many dental procedures used implements that could in any way negatively affect the baby. Among them, some radiation when taking the pictures, some medications. It is also noted that pain and stress that cause certain treatments would be unwise.

Usually we hear that during pregnancy women may drop it to have teeth, others are more extreme and say that with each pregnancy, women should lose at least one tooth, because the calcium needed to meet the bus would be extracted from them. But specialists say that this has no scientific basis. But when you’re pregnant, it does produce some changes in the mouth and teeth of women.

It is designated as the most common disease of pregnant women, periodontal disease, whose appearance converge factors like poor hygiene, hormonal and vascular changes that would most sensitive and irritated gums, for example.

As for drugs, it is very delicate to use them, especially during the first three months of pregnancy, which could affect the fetus directly.