[Caries and periodontal state of pregnant women. Part II. Periodontal state]

Fogorv Sz. 2005 Jun;98(3):101-6.
[Article in Hungarian]

Abstract

A great number of clinical studies focused on the periodontal health of the pregnant women in the last decades, since an association has been presumed between the pregnant women's periodontal disease and the adverse pregnancy outcome. Altogether 161 healthy women were examined soon after delivery in Szeged/Hungary. The periodontal status of the patients was recorded by the Silness-Löe Plaque index (0.67), frequency of calculus (21.07%), mean probing pocket depth (1.67 mm) and the frequency of bleeding on probing (37.8%). A significant correlation was found between the state of the periodontium and the educational level and the pregnant women's profession. The periodontal state of women with higher education and the intellectuals was much better, than of the less educated patients and the manual workers.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Dental Calculus / epidemiology*
  • Dental Caries / epidemiology*
  • Dental Health Surveys*
  • Dental Plaque Index
  • Educational Status
  • Female
  • Hemorrhage / epidemiology
  • Humans
  • Hungary / epidemiology
  • Occupations
  • Periodontal Diseases / epidemiology*
  • Periodontal Index
  • Periodontal Pocket / epidemiology
  • Pregnancy
  • Pregnancy Complications / epidemiology*
  • Pregnant People