Association of Periodontal Disease and Pre-term Low Birth Weight Infants
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Association of Periodontal Disease and Pre-term Low Birth Weight Infants.
The incidence of pre-term low birth weight still prevails in developed as well as developing countries though the numbers may vary. Periodontitis is a chronic inflammatory process with multifactorial etiology and adversely affects the outcome of pregnancy which becomes a major public health problem. The association of periodontitis as risk factor for pre-term birth has been in extensive researc...
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OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to determine the influence of periodontal status on low-birth-weight pre-term delivery. MATERIAL AND METHODS Ninety-six pregnant women were examined in their first, second and third trimester to record plaque scores, clinically assessed gingival inflammation and probing depth (mean depth and percentage of sites with depth of >3 mm). Binary logistic reg...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology of India
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0971-9202,0975-6434
DOI: 10.1007/s13224-014-0581-9