A Prospective Study Establishing Correlation between Diabetes and Tooth Loss
Journal Title: Journal of Advanced Medical and Dental Sciences Research - Year 2017, Vol 5, Issue 12
Abstract
Background: Diabetes is one of the international public health concerns; it is a non communicable, chronic systemic condition affecting a vast majority of subjects. Tooth loss generally occurs due to periodontal problems and it is basically gingivitis which is an inflammatory condition of the gingiva and the adjoining periodontal tissues leading to destruction of bone, cementum and ligament. They do not have any knowledge that even tooth loss can occur in diabetes. Because of the lack of awareness, the present study was conducted with the aim to establish the number of missing teeth amongst diabetics and to create awareness about this issue amongst the study population. Materials and methods: The present observational study was conducted in the department, Institute, state during a period of 1 year. The study enrolled total of 220 subjects were enrolled, out of these 110 were having diabetes and other 110 were controls. Questions like gum swelling, malodour, reasons for teeth extraction were asked from them. These questions were generally open ended type. Thereafter every patient’s oral cavity was examined by single examiner using probe and mirror. All the data was arranged in a tabulated form and analyzed using SPSS software. Student t test was applied as a test of significance. Probability value of less than 0.05 was considered significant. Results: The present study included total of 220 subjects, out of these there were 110 diabetics and other 110 were controls. The mean age of the population was 36.65 +/- 8.6 years. There were 49.1% males and 50.9% females in the non diabetic group. There was no significant difference between the two groups. There were 16.4% subjects between 30-40 years of age, 51.8% subjects between 41-50 years of age, 20% subjects between 51-60 years of age and 11.8% subjects 61-70 years of age. The most common age group amongst diabetic and non diabetic subjects was 41-50 years of age. The mean number of missing teeth amongst diabetics was 5.11+/-0.69. The mean number of missing teeth amongst non diabetics was 3.05 +/-0.52. There was a significant difference in the mean missing teeth amongst both the groups as p value was less than 0.05. Conclusion: From the above study we can conclude that there is significant difference in teeth loss amongst diabetics and non diabetics.
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Atul Kumar Singh, Rahul Mishra
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