[Oral appearances in patients with diabetic type I]

ABSTRACT

Diabetes mellitus is a syndrome in -which energy metabolism equilibrium is disturbed due toloss of secreted insulin or fault in it's function. The result is abnormal metabolim of carbohydrate proteinand fat. Numerous oral soft tissue lesions were reported in diabetic patient. The goal of this study was tocompare the relative frequency of oral manifestation in diabetic patients [type I] in diabetic research centerwith normal community of Isfahan.This experimental study was of case-control type. Popualation in which the study was conductedconsisted of 96 diabetic patients and 96 healthy individuals who were relatives of diabetic patients accompanyingthem. Simple sampling method was used as the method of sampling Data were collected from research center byexamining diabetic and control group. Data were then registeried in preformed check lists and statisticallyanalyzed.Data showed that relative frequency of irritation fibroma, fissure tongue, traumatic ulcers, xerostomia, glossodynia and Candida related ulcer was 6.2, 21.9, 8.4, 57.3, 9.4 and 6.2 percent respectively. Their frequencyin control group was 21, 9.4, 3.1, 16.6, 3.1 and 2.1 per cent respectively.There was statistically significant differences between frequency of these lesions and casecontrol group. Comparing results of this study with the study of Guggenheim indicates that prevalence ofthese lesions in our case group was higher than his study group finally further study is suggested todetermine the etiology of this high prevalence in our study group