Pregnancy and Oral Health

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Summary: Eye-opening MUST read!
Review: Excellent! This book should be given to all new OB patients in their welcome packet. It sure opened my eyes to the simple way to properly care for my mouth and the horrors that can happen if I don't know how.

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Summary: Habit Changing Work
Review: I picked up this book at a local writer's conference. Being a single male, I'm not exactly in the book's target audience, but I like to support local authors. I was very pleasantly surprised. Pregnancy and Oral Health offers very useful information in an agreeable, often humerous style. It is not a fear mongering book, nor is is simply a list (ten things you can do to have better breath...). It is a complete work on oral health, and specifically its importance in pregnancy. It passed what I consider the ultimate test for a "self help" book - it convinced me to change my habits for the better. I'm buying a copy for every woman I know who is thinking about having children.

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Summary: Book saved my gums, my teeth, and maybe even my life
Review: Mama Gums and her immensely readable book most certainly saved my gums, my teeth, and maybe even my life. This entertaining book and its essential oral-care techniques are for everyone -- men and women, boys and girls, pregnant and non-pregnant, and especially dental professionals (who need to read it the most).

Sheila's book has all the information your dental professionals should give you but don't. Believe me, I speak from experience! After years of conscientiously soliciting and scrupulously following the "brush, floss, and regular professional cleanings" advice of my general dentist and first periodontist, I was rewarded with war-zone style bleeding gums at every cleaning, deep periodontal pockets, receding gums, and significant bone loss. My first periodontist told me my only alternative was extensive gum surgery. The periodontist whose second opinion I sought wanted to do even more extensive gum surgery. Yikes, yikes, and double yikes! I was paralyzed with fear.

My friend introduced me to Sheila via telephone and loaned me a copy of her warm, witty, and scientifically sound but completely understandable book. I read Sheila's book cover to cover and immediately began following her oral-care regimen. I also ordered several more copies for my friends, my family, and myself.

This week, I had the best dental checkup of my life -- no bleeding, no tartar buildup, significantly reduced periodontal pockets, tight healthy gum tissue, and one very happy camper. Sheila's book and my willingness to follow it made all the difference, taking me from oral-health hell to oral-health heaven in less than six months.

You literally can't live without this book, so buy it, follow it, and enjoy the results. You, too, will thank Mama Gums.

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Summary: Recommended reading for expectant mothers everywhere
Review: Pregnancy And Oral Health examines the link between gum infections during pregnancy and an increased risk of premature or underweight births, as well as heart attack, stroke, and other serious illness. Chapters provide recommendations for a simple, daily antibacterial program to support the body's natural healing, an eight-point test to determine if one has gum disease, advice for preventing pregnancy gingivitis, straight talk on why brushing and flossing alone may not be enough, and much more. Pregnancy And Oral Health is a superbly presented and welcome supplement to pregnancy reference shelves, and especially recommended reading for expectant mothers everywhere.


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Summary: Oral Health and Pregnancy Outcomes
Review: The link between oral health and pregnancy outcomes has become an important focus in the women's health community over the past decade. It is clear that poor oral hygiene and a lack of oral health may contribute to morbidity during the childbearing year. With her book, Pregnancy and Oral Health, Sheila Wolf offers those interested in optimizing their health a valuable tool. This book is accessible, informative and motivating and clearly outlines simple behaviors that will improve one's oral health. As a nurse-midwife serving women throughout their life span, I found this book's content as pertinent to providers of obstetric care as it is to our clients.

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Summary: Oral Health and Pregnancy Outcomes
Review: The link between oral health and pregnancy outcomes has become an important focus in the women's health community over the past decade. It is clear that poor oral hygiene and a lack of oral health may contribute to morbidity during the childbearing year. With her book, Pregnancy and Oral Health, Sheila Wolf offers those interested in optimizing their health a valuable tool. This book is accessible, informative and motivating and clearly outlines simple behaviors that will improve one's oral health. As a nurse-midwife serving women throughout their life span, I found this book's content as pertinent to providers of obstetric care as it is to our clients.

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Summary: Succinct and so helpful!
Review: This is my new official baby shower gift. The book is chock-full of information and tips that you can use right now whether you're expecting or not. It's a real eye-opener! Among other things, it shows you exactly how you *should* brush your teeth (I've been doing it wrong all these years), what kind of toothbrush, floss, and irrigation system to use, why pregnant women get "pregnancy gingivitis" and how to solve it, what baking soda does for your gums, how to tell if you have bad breath and what might be causing it...

It's a quick read, not slowed down by any unneccesary information, and I felt like I'd gotten a thorough education on proper oral hygeine by the time I was through, which no dentist has ever given me before. I had heard that gum infections (which are very common) can put you at risk for all sorts of other problems (heart attack and stroke, for example), but I never knew why, and I never knew that oral infections put pregnancies in danger. This book might just save lives... who would have guessed?

A great gift for the mom-to-be in your life. Especially if you like her teeth. ;)

--Jenna Glatzer, author of Outwitting Writer's Block and Make a Real Living as a Freelance Writer

Rating:
Summary: Succinct and so helpful!
Review: This is my new official baby shower gift. The book is chock-full of information and tips that you can use right now whether you're expecting or not. It's a real eye-opener! Among other things, it shows you exactly how you *should* brush your teeth (I've been doing it wrong all these years), what kind of toothbrush, floss, and irrigation system to use, why pregnant women get "pregnancy gingivitis" and how to solve it, what baking soda does for your gums, how to tell if you have bad breath and what might be causing it...

It's a quick read, not slowed down by any unneccesary information, and I felt like I'd gotten a thorough education on proper oral hygeine by the time I was through, which no dentist has ever given me before. I had heard that gum infections (which are very common) can put you at risk for all sorts of other problems (heart attack and stroke, for example), but I never knew why, and I never knew that oral infections put pregnancies in danger. This book might just save lives... who would have guessed?

A great gift for the mom-to-be in your life. Especially if you like her teeth. ;)

--Jenna Glatzer, author of Outwitting Writer's Block and Make a Real Living as a Freelance Writer