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The Whole Tooth About Pregnancy:

Ensuring Healthy Smiles During the Perinatal Period

Module Information

Grades: 9, 10, 11, 12

Oral Health Subjects: Oral Disease and Tooth Decay, Periodontal Disease, Prevention, Oral Health in Overall Health, Public Health, Insurance, Medical-Dental Integration, Access to Care

Keywords: Prenatal, Perinatal, Pregnancy Outcomes and Conditions, Fetus, Prevention, Dental Treatment Safety

Learning Goals:

  • Understand how pregnancy impacts the body
  • Explain why oral health matters during the perinatal period
  • Demonstrate ways care can be provided to pregnant individuals
  • Understand how to use insurance and other programs to make care accessible

Educational Standards

National Health Education Standards

Standard 1

1.12.1 Apply ways to build upon strengths and assets to support individual and collective health and well-being

1.12.2 Analyze the relationships between various dimensions of wellness as related to health outcomes

1.12.3 Evaluate behaviors that reduce or prevent illnesses and injuries

1.12.4 Evaluate practices and behaviors that support health and well-being, including how to manage health conditions 

1.12.5 Examine connections between individual health literacy, organizational health literacy, and health outcomes

1.12.6 Analyze how individual, interpersonal, community, societal, and environmental factors are interrelated and impact health outcomes

1.12.7 Analyze the benefits of and barriers to practicing a variety of health behaviors

1.12.8 Examine how self-efficacy, perceived susceptibility, and perceived severity affect health behaviors

1.12.9 Analyze the relationship between access to health care and overall health and well-being

Standard 2

2.12.1 Evaluate the interrelationships and impacts of various influences and health behaviors on health and well-being

2.12.2 Evaluate how social determinants of health influence health behaviors, health outcomes, and health equity

2.12.3 Evaluate how individual, interpersonal, community, societal, and environmental influences and factors affect health equity

2.12.4 Formulate strategies to manage influences that impact health and well-being

2.12.5 Use resources to manage influences that impact health and well-being

Standard 3

3.12.1 Analyze the accessibility of trusted adults, other individuals, health professionals, and other resources to promote health and well-being

3.12.2 Analyze supports and barriers to accessing valid and reliable health information, products, services, and other resources

3.12.3 Evaluate the validity, reliability, and accessibility of health information, products, services, and other resources

3.12.4 Use valid and reliable sources of health information, products, services, and other resources

3.12.5 Apply strategies to manage misinformation and disinformation

Standard 4

4.12.3 Demonstrate how to ask for and offer assistance to support the health of self and others

4.12.9 Adapt strategies to communicate with others with different perspectives and values in various contexts

4.12.10 Communicate with empathy and compassion

Standard 5

5.12.1 Analyze how health-related decisions may affect personal and community health and well-being from a variety of perspectives

5.12.2 Determine when and why health-related situations require the application of a thoughtful decision-making process.

5.12.4 Analyze a variety of options based on priorities and potential outcomes when making a health-related decision

5.12.5 Analyze the potential impact of a decision on the health and well-being at individual, interpersonal, community, societal, and environmental levels

5.12.7 Evaluate the impact of supports and barriers that affect decision making at individual, interpersonal, community, societal, and environmental levels

Standard 7

7.12.1 Analyze supports and barriers to engaging in health-related practices and behaviors

7.12.2 Evaluate practices, behaviors, and other factors supporting individual and collective health and well-being

7.12.3 Adapt practices and behaviors to support individual and collective health and well-being

7.12.4 Demonstrate a variety of practices and behaviors supporting individual and collective health and well-being

Standard 8

8.12.1 Examine a variety of factors that affect advocacy at individual, interpersonal, community, societal, and environmental levels

8.12.2 Advocate for health issues either collaboratively or individually to promote health and well-being

8.12.3 Customize advocacy skills and strategies for varying audiences and contexts

8.12.4 Demonstrate self-advocacy skills and strategies to promote health and well-being

8.12.5 Demonstrate advocacy skills and strategies to promote health and well-being at interpersonal, community, societal, and environmental levels

8.12.6 Evaluate the process, outcomes, and impact of advocacy efforts at the individual, interpersonal, community, societal, and environmental levels

8.12.7 Analyze the role of collaboration among different people in a community to prevent and solve community health issues

Standards for the English Language Arts

Standards

8: Students use a variety of technological and informational resources (e.g., libraries, databases, computer networks, video) to gather and synthesize information and to create and communicate knowledge

National Curriculum Standards for Social Studies:

Civics

D2.Civ.1.9-12: Distinguish the powers and responsibilities of local, state, tribal, national, and international civic and political institutions 

D2.Civ.13.9-12: Evaluate public policies in terms of intended and unintended outcomes, and related consequences

Economics

D2.Eco.1.9-12: Analyze how incentives influence choices that may result in policies with a range of costs and benefits for different groups 

Geography

D2.Geo.2.9-12: Use maps, satellite images, photographs, and other representations to explain relationships between the locations of places and regions and their political, cultural, and economic dynamics. 

Communicating Conclusions and Taking Informed Action

D4.7.9-12: Assess options for individual and collective action to address local, regional, and global problems by engaging in self-reflection, strategy identification, and complex causal reasoning

Psychology

D2.Psy.8.9-12: Explain the complexities of human thought and behavior, as well as the factors related to the individual differences among people.

D2.Psy.9.9-12: Describe biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors that influence individuals’ cognition, perception, and behavior.