Periodontitis: An Emerging Risk Factor for Diabetes

---

Author Details : Vivek Govila, Smita Govila, Satya Gupta, Deepika Singh

Volume : 1, Issue : 4, Year : 2015

Article Page : 182-186

Suggest article by email

Get Permission

---

Abstract

The emerging field of periodontal medicine offers new insights into the concept of the oral cavity as one system interconnected with the whole human body. Thus, periodontists of the future will need to understand routine medical diagnostic tests used to monitor patients with systemic conditions that are modified by oral infection. The impact of oral infection on systemic health thus further defines the new branch of periodontology termed periodontal medicine. There are various recent scientific evidences suggesting moderate untreated periodontitis may affect an individual systemically, and may contribute to cardiovascular disease, diabetes. This means a two-way relationship in which periodontal disease in an individual may be a powerful influence on an individual’s systemic health or disease as well as the more customarily understood role that systemic disease may have in influencing an individual’s periodontal health or disease. Logically included in this definition would be new diagnostic and treatment strategies that recognize the relationship between periodontal disease and systemic disease.

Key words: Periodontitis, Diabetes mellitus, Inflammatory markers, Glycemic control

 

How to cite : Govila V, Govila S, Gupta S, Singh D, Periodontitis: An Emerging Risk Factor for Diabetes. Int J Oral Health Dent 2015;1(4):182-186

This is an Open Access (OA) journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.