Women who are trying to become pregnant should look after their
oral health a new report has shown. There are fertility experts
that have announced this very same thing at the 2011 European
Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology meeting in
Stockholm earlier this week. According to the first round of
research that has been conducted it has predominantly shown up
that gum disease can go on to make a woman’s chances of getting
pregnant by an average of two months or more. The data that has
been collected goes on to suggest that periodontal disease is a
great risk factor, which can increase a woman’s time to
conception, particularly for non-Caucasians according to Roger
Hart who is the Professor of Reproductive Medicine at the
University of Western Australia and Medical Director of
Fertility Specialists of Western Australia. The gum disease goes
on to have a negative influence on fertility that can be as bad
as obesity. Roger Hart and his colleagues studied as many as
3,400 pregnant women from Western Austr