Dental problems in people with Diabetes

Generally, diabetic people tend to focus more on the care of their levels of sugar, blood pressure and feet, but they forgot about a very important thing: Their teeth.

Some people with diabetic might “surprisingly” find they have lost their upper and/or lower frontal teeth, and they have to use dentures. This teeth loss in diabetics is actually no strange.

In fact, diabetic people are more likely to have severe teeth problems than non-diabetics due to irregular levels of insulin (the hormone that controls sugar) in blood.

It is very common that diabetes patients present caries, tartar calculi, bacterial plaque, periodontal disease or fungi infections.

Despite of following a good dental cleaning, it is unavoidable they develop dental calculi, especially in the back teeth, where it periodontal disease generally occurs.

As for caries, these are formed when diabetes is not well-controlled and the high levels of glucose in saliva promote the formation of plaque, which if it is not removed regularly becomes solid would produce chronic mouth inflammations and infections.

And periodontal disease also occurs more in patients who do not regularly control their diabetes than in those who do control their disease.