Abstract

As life expectancy prolonged currently, geriatrics become important and therefore it is urgent to improve the life quality throughout the chronic and critical diseases among the elderly above sixty-fifth years old. On the other hand, diabetes mellitus (DM) is the most famous chronic and metabolic disease which may lead to many cardiac, renal and infectious complications. Therefore regular blood sugar control is extremely important in diabetic management to avoid further complications. However, these procedures performed in the later stages of diabetes including blood sugar monitoring and insulin injections are all invasive and may result in irritations and unbearable stress inevitably. Diabetes also shows high correlations to periodontitis and has great influences in dental implant decisions. Currently diabetes under regular blood sugar control is not regarded as a contraindication of dental implant and the overall implant survival rate within five years is around 90%, which shows no significant differences compared to the patients without diabetic conditions. Furthermore, proper implant design will contribute in oral hygiene maintenance and bring benefits in blood sugar control indirectly by reduce the inflammatory status among the gingiva. By the above facts, we proposed a newly intra-oral device via dental implant to achieve long-term painless and continuous insulin releasing and blood sugar monitoring. We introduce the mechanism to avoid painful sensations during insulin releasing and blood sugar monitoring. We also introduce the relative considerations for the device applied in diabetes. With proper improvements and standard procedure establishments under safety considerations, the newly device may have potential to achieve painless insulin releasing and blood sugar monitoring.

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