The study revealed that women who had more than one child, regardless of socioeconomic status, reported more tooth loss.

Women who have many children are at greater risk of losing teeth throughout their lives, according to a study released in the U.S.

The number of births “is linked to tooth loss among American women, but could not define the mechanisms for this association,” concluded the report, published by the American Journal of Public Health.

The study revealed that women who had more than one child, regardless of socioeconomic status, reported more tooth loss.

“It will take more research to determine whether disparities in dental health among women who have been pregnant are caused by the differences (in number of pregnancies) or physiological or social changes” related to access to health care, he added.

The study, by researchers from Yale and New York, analyzed data of 2,635 black and white women between 18 and 64 years of age, the number of children, and their relationship to dental health.

It is the largest U.S. study to date on the link between the number of pregnancies and dental health of women, and the results corroborate those of a Nordic research developed during the 1980s.

Among the high-class women, those with one child suffered the loss of around two teeth, while those with four or more children lost five teeth, the study said.

Among low-income, childless women had lost an average of two teeth, women with one child on average, three teeth and they had four or more around eight teeth, the analysis said.

The researchers observed the same trend among middle-class women.

Although the reasons remain unclear, researchers speculate that tooth loss among women who have had children is due to many factors including the propensity to develop gingivitis during pregnancy status, or lack of access to dental care .

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