Faculdade de Medicina Dentária, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
INEB-Instituto Nacional de Engenharia Biomédica, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
Int J Gynaecol Obstet. 2023 Aug;162(2):449-461. doi: 10.1002/ijgo.14703. Epub 2023 Feb 20.
Hormonal and behavioral changes during pregnancy may impact the oral health of women, which can influence the pregnancy course. Prenatal care practitioners (PCP) must be aware of this bidirectional relation in order to include an oral assessment in routine prenatal care.
To characterize the knowledge and attitudes of PCP regarding oral health in pregnant women.
The search was carried out in PubMed, Web of Science, Lilacs, Scopus, and Embase on May 2022.
Peer-reviewed cross-sectional studies published in English within the last 5 years that assessed the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of PCP towards oral health in pregnancy were selected.
Data were standardly extracted by the three reviewers from the selected articles and their bias was assessed.
From a total of 996 articles, 24 were selected. Overall, most PCP have an adequate level of knowledge regarding the importance of oral health during pregnancy. Although several professionals reported referring their patients to a dentist, the attitudes and practices of the majority of PCP were still inadequate.
PCP are aware of the importance of oral health during pregnancy but still lack translating this knowledge into clinical practice.
怀孕期间的激素和行为变化可能会影响女性的口腔健康，从而影响妊娠过程。产前保健医生（PCP）必须意识到这种双向关系，以便在常规产前保健中纳入口腔评估。
描述 PCP 对孕妇口腔健康的知识和态度。
2022 年 5 月，在 PubMed、Web of Science、Lilacs、Scopus 和 Embase 上进行了检索。
选择了过去 5 年内在同行评议的横断面上发表的英文文章，评估了 PCP 对妊娠期间口腔健康的知识、态度和实践。
三位审稿人从选定的文章中提取数据并评估其偏倚。
共检索到 996 篇文章，最终选取了 24 篇。总体而言，大多数 PCP 对怀孕期间口腔健康的重要性有足够的认识。尽管有几位专业人员表示会将患者转介给牙医，但大多数 PCP 的态度和实践仍不够充分。
PCP 意识到了怀孕期间口腔健康的重要性，但仍缺乏将这一知识转化为临床实践的能力。
