Link Between Pregnancy And Tooth Loss Discovered By NYU Dental Researcher

The old wives tale “for every child the mother loses a tooth” has some validity, a New York University dental professor has found.Women who have more children are more likely to have missing teeth, according to a nationwide study of 2,635 women by Dr. Stefanie Russell, an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology & Health Promotion, which was published on the Web site of the American Journal of Public Health.Dr.

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Filed under: Dentistry on June 1st, 2008