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Odontogenesis , Pregnancy in Diabetics , Adolescent , Adult , Age Factors , Birth Weight , Child , Dentition, Mixed , Diabetic Nephropathies/diagnosis , Diabetic Retinopathy/diagnosis , Female , Humans , Male , Pregnancy , Statistics as TopicABSTRACT
The calculus (OHI-S) index according to Greene and Vermillion and the periodontal disease index of Kötzschke were determined in 209 male diabetics. The calculus index (CI) was significantly lower in diabetics with healthy gingivae (CI=0.40) than in diabetics with pathological periodontal findings (CI=1.40). Diabetics with advanced periodontal diseases (gingival recession, periodontitis and pockets), such as parodontopathia inflammata profunda, showed the highest CI value (1.88) which also differed significantly from the CI values for diabetics with healthy gingivae or with parodontopathia inflammata superficialis. 91% of our diabetics with pathological findings showed also concretions of calculus, subgingival concretions being detectable in 47.4% of these patients. It is concluded from results obtained that calculus formation is surely a sequela but not the only cause of periodontal diseases.
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Dental Calculus/complications , Diabetes Complications , Periodontal Diseases/complications , Humans , Male , Periodontal IndexABSTRACT
Using the Oral Hygiene Index (OHI) of Greene and Vermillion (1960), the author determined in 209 diabetics the degree of oral dirtiness and studied its effect on the periodontal conditions. He found that the OHI was significantly lower (1.17) in diabetics with healthy gingivae than in diabetics with periodontal diseases (1.60). In diabetics with parodontopathia mixta or parodontopathia inflammata profunda the OHI (1.67 and 1.86, respecitvely) was significantly worse than that in diabetics with clinically healthy gingivae or parodontopathia inflammata superficialis. Oral hygiene also correlated significantly (correlation coefficient r=0.206) with age at P less than 1%. The mean OHI for diabetics (1.55) was almost identical witoes not support the view that diabetes itself favours plaque formation.
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Dental Plaque/etiology , Diabetes Complications , Periodontal Diseases/etiology , Humans , Male , Oral Hygiene IndexABSTRACT
Gingiva biopsy samples from healthy individuals and from diabetics with different forms of periodontal disease were incubated in the Warburg apparatus for 2 hours. Considerable reduction in oxygen consumption and glucose uptake was found in each type of periodontal disease, the most marked reduction being stated in case of parodontopathia dystrophica. The extent of the metabolic disturbance as well as the appearence of periodontal disease correlated with the duration of diabetes on the one hand with the frequency and severity of diabetic retinopathy on the other hand.
