Professional paper

Oral Manifestations in Diabetes

Borka Obradović ; School of Dental Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Ana Cekić-Arambašin ; DZ Bosanska Krupa

Abstract

As a systemic disease, diabetes mellitus also involves alterations o f oral structures as an integral part of the body. A group of 47 diabetics, 34 females and 13 males, mean age 55 years, were included in the study. Mean blood glucose was 12.6 mol/1. Results of clinical studies of oral alterations showed oral symptoms, i.e. xerostomia, to predominate in study subjects, followed by glossopyrosis, stomatopyrosis, gingvitis with hyperkeratosis and exfoliations effecting the tongue and lips. Membranes and ulcerations were less frequent in the group of diabetics under study. Along with the occurrence o f metabolic and hormonal disturbances, cardiovascular diseases occupy the first place, followed by locomotor,
gastrointestinal, respiratory and renal disturbances.

Keywords

diabetes; gingiva

Hrčak ID:

100782

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/100782

Publication date:

15.1.1991.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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