Dental caries and diabetes: A Belgian survey of patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
(2020) Diabetes & Metabolism — Vol. 46, n° 3, p. 248-249 (2020)
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- (en) Dental caries are the indirect result of the breakdown offermentable carbohydrates by specific mouth bacteria, with thefinal production of lactic acid favouring demineralization of theteeth [1]. Up to now, the relationship between caries and diabeteshas remained controversial: increased, similar and decreasedcarious lesions have all, in fact, been reported in patients with andwithout diabetes [2–4]. Thus, as also stated by Lamster Ira [1],there is currently insufficient evidence to determine whether thereis any relationship between diabetes and dental caries. [...]
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Buysschaert, M., Buysschaert, B., & Jamart, J. (2020). Dental caries and diabetes: A Belgian survey of patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Diabetes & Metabolism, 46(3), 248-249. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diabet.2018.06.002 (Original work published 2020)