Assessment of dental caries and gingival status among a group of type 1 diabetes mellitus and healthy children of South India – a comparative study
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K.L. Girish Babu
,
Priya Subramaniam
and
Keerthan Kaje
Abstract
Background
Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disorder. However, dental caries and periodontal health have not attracted much interest in diabetic patients. This study was carried out to assess the dental caries status and gingival health status in children with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM).
Methods
The study group consisted of 80 children, aged 6–18 years, with T1DM. The dental caries status was recorded using the World Health Organisation (WHO) criteria. Gingival health was assessed using the Loe and Silness gingival index (GI). Data obtained were subjected to statistical analysis.
Results
The mean dental caries status for primary (decayed, extracted, filled teeth [deft]) and permanent dentition (decayed, missing, filled teeth [DMFT]) scores in diabetic children were 0.44±1.28 and 1.26±2.49, respectively. The GI scores of diabetic children were 0.33±0.48. GI in the study group significantly correlated with DMFT (p<0.001) and deft (p≤0.05).
Conclusions
Dental caries in primary dentition was lower in diabetic children but was not statistically significant, whereas dental caries in permanent dentition was significantly higher. The gingival condition of diabetic children was healthy.
Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.
Research funding: None declared.
Employment or leadership: None declared.
Honorarium: None declared.
Competing interests: There is no funding organization that played role in the study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; or in the decision to submit the report for publication.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Original Articles
- Targeted next generation sequencing in patients with maturity-onset diabetes of the young (MODY)
- Assessment of dental caries and gingival status among a group of type 1 diabetes mellitus and healthy children of South India – a comparative study
- Early adiposity rebound in patients with Prader-Willi syndrome
- Arterial stiffness as a measure of cardiovascular risk in obese adolescents and adolescents with diabetes type 1
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- Insulin resistance in children with familial hyperlipidemia
- Insulin resistance linked to subtle myocardial dysfunction in normotensive Turner syndrome young patients without structural heart diseases
- Acetylcholinesterase activity and bone biochemical markers in premature and full-term neonates
- Baseline characteristics of gender dysphoric youth
- Case Reports
- Multi-disciplinary evaluation of a 5-month-old with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy related to a functional adrenocortical tumor
- A case of an infant with extremely low birth weight and hypothyroidism associated with massive cutaneous infantile hemangioma
- Possible hints and pitfalls in diagnosing Peutz-Jeghers syndrome
