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ArticleJournal of dental research2025

Preconception Oral Health Is Associated with Modifiable Health Behaviors.

J C Bond, M A Simancas-Pallares, K Divaris, R I Garcia, M P Fox, L A Wise, B Heaton

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Article in Journal of dental research, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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7 authors.

J C BondDepartment of Health Policy and Health Services Research, Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2988-7755
M A Simancas-PallaresDepartment of Pediatric Dentistry and Dental Public Health, Adams School of Dentistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
K DivarisDepartment of Pediatric Dentistry and Dental Public Health, Adams School of Dentistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1290-7251
R I GarciaDepartment of Health Policy and Health Services Research, Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.
M P FoxDepartment of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.
L A WiseDepartment of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.
B HeatonDepartment of Health Policy and Health Services Research, Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3097-4717

Funding

Optimizing population oral health through integrating patient, provider, and population-based approachesR35DE034352 · NIDCR · UTAH STATE HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM--UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI Brenda Heaton · 2024 to 2026
$3.0M
Preconception periodontitis and adverse pregnancy outcomes in a prospective cohort of pregnancy plannersR03DE033133 · NIDCR · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI HEATON, BRENDA · 2023 to 2023
$154k
Women's oral health in the preconception period: correlates and consequencesF31DE031969 · NIDCR · BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS · PI BOND, JULIA CRAIG · 2022 to 2023
$74k
NIDCR NIH HHS F31 DE031969NIDCR NIH HHS R03 DE033133NIDCR NIH HHS R35 DE034352
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The health of prospective parents before conception (i.e., preconception health) has important intergenerational consequences. Although oral health is associated with several reproductive outcomes, it is often absent from preconception health promotion. To generate insights that may inform preconception oral health interventions, we used cross-sectional data from 6,159 US-based participants enrolled in the Pregnancy Study Online, a prospective cohort study of pregnancy planners, to characterize preconception oral health care engagement and self-rated oral health. We used latent class analysis to identify homogenous subgroups (i.e., latent classes) of participants with respect to modifiable risk behaviors and quantified associations between class membership and 3 outcomes-reporting no dental visit within the past year, reporting no dental cleaning within the past year, and self-rated oral health-using log binomial regression models. We identified 3 distinct groups of participants:

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Health BehaviorOral HealthPreconception CareAdultCross-Sectional StudiesDental CareFemaleHealth Risk BehaviorsHumansOral HygienePregnancyProspective StudiesSugar-Sweetened BeveragesUnited StatesYoung Adultepidemiologyhealth promotionhealth risk behaviorslatent class analysispreconception care

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PMID40254774
PMCPMC12409283

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