Pregnancy

Hormones and how they affect women’s dental health.

Back in January of 2012 Dr. Amble blogged about continuing good dental care through your pregnancy and gave his overall recommendations. If you missed that post, here it is again Continuing Good Dental Care Through Your Pregnancy. We wanted to follow that up with a reference to a good article found at EmPowHer.com. The article

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Continuing good dental care through your pregnancy.

It is very important that women continue dental care through their pregnancy.  Hormones that are present during pregnancy and nursing affect the oral mucosa and the mucosa becomes sensitized to irritants such as bacteria.  This can result in an overgrowth of the gumline, a condition we call pregnancy hyperplasia.  In extreme cases, the gumline becomes

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