TY - BOOK ID - 127019122 TI - Preterm and hypotrophic children at birth due to periodontal disease in Belgium AU - Dimmer, Annik AU - Macri, Marco AU - Brecx, Michel AU - UCL.. MEDE - Faculté de médecine et de médecine dentaire PY - 2016 PB - Bruxelles: UCL. Faculté de médecine et de médecine dentaire, DB - UniCat KW - Periodontal Diseases KW - Infant, Premature, Diseases UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:127019122 AB - Preterm birth and hypotrophic birth is a major issue of the 21st century. It is responsible for 14.1% of deaths of children younger than five years. Therefore, it is important to further investigate different pathologies, which could lead to preterm birth. Periodontal disease has been linked to preterm birth since Offenbacher first published his study Periodontal infection as a possible risk factor for preterm and low birth weight in 1996. Many studies about the same subject have been published since then but none of them tried to see if the rate of preterm and hypotrophic birth rise as the periodontal status worsens. We propose a study, where the DPSI is used to classify the subjects in four different groups according to their periodontal status to be able to compare if the percentage of preterm and hypotrophic children rises as the periodontal status worsens.Material and Methods: Ethical approval has been granted by the Comité d'Ethique Hospitalo-Facultaire from Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc. Eligible subjects were asked to sign a consent form. Then a DPSI was scored on the eligible subjects between their 9th and 2llh week of pregnancy. Approximately at the expected date of labour, the medical record was checked to see if there was preterm birth or if the child was born small for gestational age (SGA). ER -