[Dental care for the pregnant hypertensive patient]

Different odontology publications have stressed how important it is for every D.D.S. to be familiar with the fundamentals of detection and treatment to be considered in all cases of patients who suffer from hypertension. This condition has of late been occurring at increasingly early ages, and it is now known that children of hypertensive parents have higher blood pressures than those of parents with normal readings, all ages considered. The state of stress in which individuals currently live, conditions young persons with labile hypertension to develop essential hypertension, which becomes fixed within briefer periods.