Work-related head injury and industry sectors in Finland: causes and circumstances.

Objective: Despite the continuous development of occupational safety, the prevalence of work-related head injuries is excessive. To promote prevention, we conducted a study evaluating the risks and pathways that precede head injuries in different economic activity sectors.

Methods: In Finland, more than 90% of employees are covered by inclusive statutory workers' compensation.

Oral inflammatory burden and preterm birth.

Background: Earlier studies on the association between oral inflammation and preterm birth limited the inflammation source to periodontal disease. This might have caused an underestimation of the total inflammatory burden from the oral cavity.

Methods: We conducted a postpartum cross-sectional study of 328 Finnish women with singleton births, of whom 77 had preterm births and 251 had full-term births.

Postpartum oral health parameters in women with preterm birth.

Objective: It has been suggested that poor oral health and periodontal disease, in particular, associate with adverse birth outcomes. However, previous reports on the topic are conflicting. The objective of the present cross-sectional study was therefore to compare the oral health parameters of a racially and socio-economically homogeneous group of women who gave birth before 259 gestational days (37 weeks) with those of women who went full-term.