Influence of the Course of Pregnancy on the Health of Deciduous Teeth

Objective: The aim of research was to determine whether pathologies during pregnancy can affect the development of milk teeth of the unborn child.

Methods: The study included 56 pregnant women and 57 of their newborn children. The timing of the eruption of milk teeth and mineralization were assessed in children for 1 year. The age of 8 women was under the 24 years old.

Results: The preeclampsia, fetal hypoxia and long-term difficult labor was observed in 6 women. 3 women had type 1 diabetes mellitus. 9 women received antibiotic therapy (ABT) with 3-generation cephalosporins because of urinary tract infection (UTI) and bacterial pneumonia (BP). Acute respiratory viral infection (ARVI) at various stages of pregnancy was diagnosed in 12 women, of whom 3 independently took antibiotics of the penicillin group.

It was found that the presence of gestosis, fetal hypoxia during pregnancy, prolonged difficult labor and diabetes mellitus led to a later eruption of milk teeth in 7 out of 9 children (77.8%). In the children born by young age women the eruption timing lagged in 4 cases out of 8 (50%). ARVI and penicillins intaking did not affect the timing of teething. Whereas in the group with cephalosporins intaking the timing of teething in infants was postponed in 3 out of 6 (50%) children from women with UTI, and in all 3 (100%) children from women with BP. Also the demineralization of the tooth enamel of milk teeth was diagnosed in 4 (44.4%) of 9 children from this group.

Conclusion: The pathologies during the course of pregnancy as diabetes mellitus, gestosis, fetal hypoxia, long-term difficult labor and intaking ABT (cephalosporins) because of UTI and BP could effect on the timing of the eruption of deciduous teeth in children.