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Oral Hygiene Care for Pregnancy
to Reduce Risks of Preterm Labor:
Nurse’s Role
Abstract
Oral health may be considered an important part of prenatal care, given that poor oral health during pregnancy can lead
to poor health outcomes for the mother and baby. Pregnancy may make women more prone to periodontal (gum) disease and
cavities. Periodontitis is one of risk factors related to preterm labor. In order to reduce this serious problem, nurses in antenatal
care unit are the rst team who play a key role in screening oral health of pregnant women and assessing their oral health status.
Maternal Oral Assessment is one of the valuable tools for investigating oral health problem in pregnant women. In addition,
antenatal services provided by nurse can help referring pregnant women to proper dental care management, encouraging them to
have routine dental checkup in the right time of pregnancy, and giving the knowledge of oral care from the beginning of pregnancy to
postpartum period. Moreover, nurses in antenatal care unit should support pregnant women and their families’ attitude towards the
benets of oral hygiene care and treatment services during pregnancy, helping them to reduce risk of preterm labor and promote the
good oral health.
Keywords: Oral hygiene care; Periodontitis; Preterm Labor; Nursing role
Tirawan Buayaem*, Salunya Tancharoen**, Nadsuda Chotwattanakulchai***
*Division of Obstetrics and Gynecology Nursing, Department of Nursing, Siriraj Hospital, **Department of Pharmacology,
Faculty of Dentistry, Mahidol University, ***Faculty of Nursing, Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi, Thailand.
Correspondence to: Tirawan Buayaem E-mail: thirawan.buy@mahidol.edu
Received: 28 May 2020 Revised: 16 September 2020 Accepted: 7 October 2020
http://dx.doi.org/10.33192/Simedbull.2021.06
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