On October 23, 2018, Elham Kateeb and Elizabeth Momany published a new study in the “BMC Oral Health Journal titled “Dental caries experience and associated risk indicators among Palestinian pregnant women in the Jerusalem area: a crosssectional study”. The article aimed to described the dental caries experience of Palestinian pregnant women and examined its relationships to their oral health knowledge, beliefs, behavior, and access to dental care. The results of this study demonstrated that pregnant women in this sample had a high prevalence of dental diseases and knew little about dental care during pregnancy. Faulty beliefs about dental care during pregnancy among women and health care providers were major factors in the high levels of disease.
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