Self-reported oral hygiene habits, dental attendance and attitudes to dentistry during pregnancy in a sample of immigrant women in North London. (Record no. 75783)

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International Standard Serial Number 09320067
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Personal name Hullah, E.
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Uniform title <a href="Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics.">Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics.</a>
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Title Self-reported oral hygiene habits, dental attendance and attitudes to dentistry during pregnancy in a sample of immigrant women in North London.
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2008
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General note NMUH Staff Publications
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General note 277
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Summary, etc. &lt;p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; line-height: 17.999801635742188px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 8pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AIM&lt;/strong&gt;:The aim of this study was to describe&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;self-reported&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;oral&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;health,&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;oral&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;hygiene&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;habits&lt;/span&gt;, frequency of visits to a dentist and factors associated with&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;dental&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;attendance&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;among pregnant&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;women&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;at a&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;North&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;London&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;Hospital, the majority of whom are immigrants.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h4 style="margin: 0px 0.25em 0px 0px; text-transform: uppercase; float: left; line-height: 17.999801635742188px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt;"&gt;BACKGROUND:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; line-height: 17.999801635742188px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Peridontal disease is associated with an increased risk of adverse&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;pregnancy&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;outcomes. The aim of this study is to describe&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;self-reported&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;oral&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;health,&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;oral&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;hygiene&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;habits&lt;/span&gt;, frequency of visits to a dentist and factors associated with&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;dental&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;attendance&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;among pregnant&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;women&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;at a&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;North&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;London&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;Hospital, the majority of whom are immigrants.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h4 style="margin: 0px 0.25em 0px 0px; text-transform: uppercase; float: left; line-height: 17.999801635742188px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt;"&gt;MATERIALS AND METHODS:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; line-height: 17.999801635742188px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt;"&gt;A questionnaire designed by the authors was completed by postnatal&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;women&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;within 3 days of delivery. Data collected included past&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;dental&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;attendance&lt;/span&gt;, reasons for&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;attendance&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;and information about age, parity and socio-economic group.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h4 style="margin: 0px 0.25em 0px 0px; text-transform: uppercase; float: left; line-height: 17.999801635742188px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt;"&gt;RESULTS:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; line-height: 17.999801635742188px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt;"&gt;In total, 206&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;women&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;completed the questionnaires within 3 days of delivery; 74.2% of the mothers were not born in the UK and 38.3% were Black African. The mean age of was 28.19 +/- 6.07 years. The majority reported good&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;oral&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;hygiene&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;habits&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;such as brushing their teeth twice a day (73.7%) and using mouthwash (51%). However, their&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;dental&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;attendance&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;was poor and the average time since their last visit to a dentist was 1.8 +/- 1.61 years. Over a third of the&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;women&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;questioned did not know about the availability of free&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;dental&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;care during&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;pregnancy&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;and for 12 months after; 33% visited a dentist in&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;pregnancy&lt;/span&gt;and half of them needed and received treatment; 15% of mothers had more than one&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;pregnancy&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;and yet were still unaware of free&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;dental&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;care provided during&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;pregnancy&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;and 12 months after birth. Only 36% of questioned&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;women&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;regularly visited a dentist.&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;Pregnancy&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;did little to change their&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;attitudes&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;to&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;dental&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;care. There appears no difference in&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;attitudes&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;to&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;dental&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;care between&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;immigrant&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;and British born pregnant&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;women&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h4 style="margin: 0px 0.25em 0px 0px; text-transform: uppercase; float: left; line-height: 17.999801635742188px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt;"&gt;CONCLUSION:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; line-height: 17.999801635742188px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 8pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Efforts to improve the uptake of&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;dental&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;care should be directed towards&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;immigrant&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;groups in order to promote better maternal health. Further research is required into the provision of&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;dental&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;care during&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;pregnancy&lt;/span&gt;, as the high level of non-&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;attendance&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;demonstrated by mothers is undesirable.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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Personal name Turok, Y.
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Personal name Nauta, M.
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Personal name Yoong, W.
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Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17940783">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17940783</a>
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Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs00404-007-0480-8.pdf">http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs00404-007-0480-8.pdf</a>
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