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Oral Manifestations and Diabetes

Volume 7 - Issue 5

Nélio Veiga*^1,2, Tiago Marques^1,2, Ana Sofia Monteiro¹, João Couto¹, Pedro Conceição¹, Sara Matos¹, Joana Santos¹, Ana Raquel Pereira¹, Sarah Goolamhussen¹, Rita Grão¹, Marta André¹ and Inês Coelho³

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- ¹Health Sciences Institute, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
- ²Centre for Interdisciplinary Health Research (CIIS), Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
³Family Health Unit Grão Vasco, Portugal

*Corresponding author: Nélio Veiga, Health Sciences Institute, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Estrada da Circunvalação, 3504-505, Viseu, Portugal

Received: August 01, 2018; Published: August 13, 2018

DOI: 10.26717/BJSTR.2018.07.001574

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Abstract

The diabetic patient is subjected to a series of systemic complications and is more prone to develop other types of pathologies. This is equally applied to the oral cavity. This revision article aims to analyze some of the possible oral manifestations and complication derived from diabetes. Concomitantly it is also pretended to know why these complications and more related to these patients, as well as to observe the differences between the pathogenesis and severity of oral pathologies among diabetics and non-diabetics.

Keywords: Diabetes; Oral Lesions; Periodontitis; Oral Candidiasis; Dental Caries; Oral Cancer