The Secretary of health of Barretos performs the project Gest Catalyst, which stimulates the dental treatment of pregnant women.

Catalyst

dental health coordinator of the Municipal Department of health, Alexander Stafy Franco, announced the creation of Gest-Catalyst Program, which in practice is the dental prenatal, aiming to Create a line of maternity Care, i.e. put into practice actions and/or speeches geared to the promotion, preservation and/or restoration of dental health of this group of patients

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the program encompasses individual self-care initiatives since taken by patients themselves, until the activities offered in an organized manner by health systems. “Through the control and monitoring of data generated by the service, we will do a comparison of the numbers of premature births and births of babies with low weight, before and after, the beginning of the project,” says Franco

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“the State of oral health presented during pregnancy has relationship with the general health of the pregnant woman and can influence in oral and general health of the baby. And related studies confirm that the oral cavity in abysmal conditions, can result in pregnant women: poor training of baby teeth of babies with low birth weight and premature births, “says the

Coordinator.