Psychological Health Status and Oral Health Outcomes of Pregnant Women: Practical Implications

Pregnancy marks an important milestone in the life cycle of a woman garnered by a milieu of physiological, psychological, emotional, social and even spiritual health needs [1].Ensuring safe motherhoods and pregnancy outcomes for a healthy mother and a baby have become priorities for health policy makers and health care delivery models both in developed and developing country scenarios.Moreover, pregnancy denotes an opportune time for intergenerational investment in health outcomes.It is well known that physiological changes that are taking place during pregnancy could give rise to demanding psychological health concerns among pregnant women compounded by their social determinates such as i.e. level of education, marital status and satisfaction, level of income, parity, minority status, having health insurance, access to health care etc. [2].Adverse life circumstances could contribute to negative psychological status of pregnant women such as stress, depression, anxiety and much more [3].These could progress into sinister events such as post-partum depression and even to post-partum psychosis in the context of predisposing mental conditions [3].