Jennifer: Thank you so much, Amy.  Now, I’d like to turn this over to Rene.   Rene Andersen: Good morning or good afternoon.  This is Rene Andersen, and thank you Amy for such a wonderful lead in.  My task today is to talk about how do we get and keep women engaged in caring for […]

Even among advantaged women, there’s still a need for enhanced education about the importance of dental care before, during, and after pregnancy.  One of the things that we know is a lack of routine oral health prior to pregnancy is also related to a lack of oral health utilization during pregnancy.  So, we always look […]

Here you have the opposite.  Don’t be fooled by the chart with little bars.  This graph starts at 80% of the population.  If you look at national data, you can see that in the childbearing age, 20 to 34, almost 85% of women have already had caries experience.  Once you pass 40, 90% of people […]

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Dr. Hilton: Good morning, everyone.  Okay, I’m Irene Hilton.  I’m from the San Francisco Department of Public Health, and, also, I’m faculty at the UCSF School of Medicine and School of Dentistry.  The objectives for my part of this session today is to talk about so we can understand the effect of maternal oral health […]