Scottsdale revisited: the role of dental practitioners in screening for undiagnosed diabetes and the medical co-management of patients with diabetes or those at risk for diabetes - PubMed (original) (raw)
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. 2008 Nov-Dec;29(9):538-40, 542-4, 546-53.
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Scottsdale revisited: the role of dental practitioners in screening for undiagnosed diabetes and the medical co-management of patients with diabetes or those at risk for diabetes
Casey Hein. Compend Contin Educ Dent. 2008 Nov-Dec.
Abstract
Evidence to support a bidirectional relationship between diabetes and periodontal disease has been emerging for more than 15 years. In 1993, Löe proposed that severe peridontitis was the sixth complication of diabetes; in 1996, Taylor and colleagues reported other compelling findings that severe periodontitis at baseline is associated with worsening glycemic control over time in a population-based study of Pima Indians with diabetes who were noninsulin dependent.