Explain How Your Dental Health Affects Your Unborn Baby

Dental care starts a few days after baby’s birth to ensure baby teeth erupt without damage from plaque. It’s possible for babies to get cavities just like anyone else, and is one of several issues many parents are concerned about.

Also commonly referred to as Gingivitis, gum disease is a contagious bacterial infection that not only affects your mouth ecology, but that can have pronounced effects on your overall health. Locally, it can be responsible for eroding and destroying your gums, and in more advanced stages it can lead to tooth loss and even jawbone erosion. Still, left untreated, the inflammation from the bacterial infection can even lead to a variety of ailments ranging from increased allergies to cancer.

Your goal is to protect your baby from all types of germs and bacterial infection that comes into his or her mouth. This is an advantage for you and your baby to become protected once and for all.

Complex physiological changes during pregnancy have a significant impact on almost every organ on the body system including the oral cavity -- these changes are due to hormonal changes. Estrogen causes increased blood flow to the oral cavity, making the gums friable and easy to bleed, contributing to gingivitis. Pregnancy-associated gingivitis is highly prevalent. It affects approximately 30%-75% of pregnant women and resolves after delivery. Nausea and vomiting during

One of the most common things that can occur during pregnancy is gingivitis. With the increased levels of progesterone, it can

Increased pressure on the blood vessels of pregnant women may affect the way gums react to the bacteria in plaque, which is known as pregnancy gingivitis, and almost 50% of pregnant women may experience it. (1)

     The plaque build up causes the gums to become red and inflamed. If not properly brushed off, the remaining plaque will also cause the gums to bleed. This stage of periodontal disease is commonly referred to gingivitis, literately meaning ¡°swelling of the gums.¡± There is no real pain associated

As a new mother, caring for your infant’s mouth should start as soon as you are home from the hospital; in fact, this is when you can begin developing your child’s life-long dental health habits. And although you may know of some mothers who use glycerin for baby’s mouth hygiene, always check with your dentist or pediatrician as to the safety of any product before using it on your baby, and ask if they recommend glycerin as a cleaning agent for newborns.

If during the first four weeks of a baby's birth, baby feeding or health problems, mental faced, or if the mother smokes during pregnancy or alcohol abuse, these children are at increased risk of

It is important to clean your baby’s gum before their teeth ever come out because if you don’t, your baby's teeth may decay/rotten and fall out too soon.

The baby will have a greater risk of ischemic encephalopathy, growth retardation and the potential for premature birth (Lim, "Preeclampsia"). For the mother preeclampsia is caused by endothelial dysfunction in pregnancy (Lim, "Preeclampsia"). Preeclampsia can also be linked to future cardiovascular disease. There has been shown to be a fourfold increase in the development of hypertension and a twofold increase in ischemic heart disease (Lim, "Preeclampsia"). Although the mechanism responsible for preeclampsia is not fully understood there are several factors that have been found to contribute; maternal immunological intolerance, abnormal placental implantation, genetic, nutritional and environmental factors and cardiovascular and inflammatory changes (Lim,

Women with gum disease while pregnant have a higher chance of having a premature baby, but well-controlled gum disease lowers this risk. It can be difficult to manage gum disease during pregnancy, as hormone fluctuations cause many changes in the mouth.

As you know, when pregnant women receive prenatal care late in their pregnancy or do not receive prenatal care at all during pregnancy, they are at higher risk for having a baby with low birth weight or giving birth prematurely. They are also at higher risk for pregnancy related mortality and birth complications.

Teething stimulates saliva in your baby’s mouth correspondingly now might be the era to check for any visible lumps or redness upon your baby’s gums that may signal a tooth is nearly to arrive through. moreover the extra saliva can create your baby cough or gag sometimes, this is usually nothing to upset practically appropriately long as your baby seems glad and isn’t showing any signs of a cold or flu and doesn’t have a high temperature, but check afterward your doctor if you are

Because the gums separate themselves from the teeth, this causes spaces between the teeth and gums, and they will become infected. As the disease advances, the pockets deepen and more gum tissue and bone are destroyed. Eventually, teeth can become loose and may have to be removed. This gum disease is one of the main causes of tooth loss in adults and has also been linked to heart disease and strokes. Gingivitis can be prevented by practicing good oral hygiene, but if it is not treated may lead to periodontal disease.