Avaliação do conhecimento das gestantes quanto a relação entre alterações bucais e intercorrências gestacionais.

Abstract

Chronic low-level persistent infection in pregnant women such as periodontal disease (PD) may impair maternal-fetal unit, since the infectious process induces the release of chemical mediators involved in the process of prematurity. Objective: To assess the knowledge of mothers regarding the relationship between oral diseases and pregnancy complications. Method: A cross-sectional epidemiological study was conducted with 104 pregnant women indexed in the Primary Care Information System (SIAB), in the Strategies for Family Health (ESF), using a structured questionnaire. Data were recorded in SPSS and analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics, considering a significance level of 5%. Result: Most patients (64.4%) were domestic (48.1%) aged 24 to 34 years and (49%) were primiparous. Among the participants, 76% are unaware of the relationship between oral disease with prematurity and birth of low birth weight babies. We found a statistically significant association between: the education and knowledge about dental prenatal care (p = 0.012) by showing that 90.4% ignore the existence of this activity and 65.4% had never received information about the care of baby oral hygiene (p = 0.003). Conclusion: Most women unaware of the relationship of PD with prematurity shows lack of information about the care of mother and baby oral hygiene, highlighting the need for greater integration between the dental surgeon and other primary care professionals in spread of oral health care for pregnant women to reduce the ratio of PD with pregnancy complications.