Oral Lesions In Diabetes Mellitus Patients Visiting A Dental Hospital.

Diabetes Mellitus has become a global epidemic and presents many complications. Oral lesions related to DM described are: dry mouth, tooth decay, periodontal disease and gingivitis, oral candidiasis, burning mouth syndrome (BMS), taste disorders, rhinocerebral zygomycosis (mucormycosis) and various other lesions. It is a retrospective study, to study the oral lesions associated with diabetes mellitus in patients who visited Saveetha Dental College and hospitals in between June 2019 to March 2020. The data of 86000 patients was reviewed and patients with diabetes mellitus and having single or multiple oral lesions were selected for this study. Chisquare test was used to detect the significance between age, gender, diabetes and oral lesions. Prevalence of diabetes was high in males (68.2%) and in individuals more than 65 years of age (49.2%) . Among both males and females dental caries and pulpitis was found to be the most common oral lesion ( 44.3% and 16.7% respectively ) oral complications in patients with DM are considered major complications of the disease and can influence the patient's quality of life. There is evidence that chronic and persistent oral complications such as dental caries, periodontitis, gingivitis, candidiasis in these patients adversely affect blood glucose control. Thus, prevention and management of oral complications due to diabetes are considerable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]