Dental care before and during pregnancy

Your cavity directly affects your child’s health. Read How……

After Marriage do not forget to get your teeth cleaned to remove the tartar and plaque which may be the reason of your bad breath.

Before getting pregnant get your full mouth checked up, so as to avoid any forthcoming dental pain, as you must be aware that a lot of dental treatments are not possible during pregnancy and you may have to bear the pain throughout your pregnancy due to unsuitable conditions of strong medications.

During Pregnancy avoid taking antibiotics like Tetracyclines (which make your child’s teeth black) or Chloramphenicol (which make your child’s teeth yellow) and any strong pain killers except crocin.

During Pregnancy gums usually bleed little more as compared to other times if you have plaque and tartar which is not a good sign and also causes bad breath and bad health for you and your child in the womb.

So get a full mouth treatment done for cavities and bleeding gums before getting pregnant especially if you have wisdom tooth pain or any deep cavity pain. Get a root canal done or extraction of wisdom tooth before pregnancy to avoid pain and eating antibiotics during your nine months.

Remember cavity in your mouth directly affects your baby when you are pregnant or when you are feeding your child…How?

Whatever you eat or drink passes through your mouth.
What is a cavity? It is a hole on the tooth which is filled with decayed food particles and bacteria.
When food or water goes into your mouth it mixes with the cavity, collects the bacteria and goes into the stomach from where your baby gets nutrition to grow in the womb.
So, your sterilized mineral water passes through the contaminated channel of cavity and goes to your baby and affects his/her health.

The same principle applies when you breast feed your baby.

Before pregnancy, see to it that you get all existing cavities filled up to give your baby a healthy nutrition and healthy milk.

During pregnancy, as far as possible, avoid any extractions (removal of teeth) especially during the first 3 months and the last 3 months.

Other dental treatments should only be done in case of an emergency, that too in the 2nd trimester (middle 3 months) only.

If you are scared of dental treatment, and dental chair, you can get your full mouth treatment done in just one sitting under conscious sedation (sleeping condition) without pain and without getting admitted in the hospital, just routinely in a dental clinic.

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