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Memorias del Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Salud

versão On-line ISSN 1812-9528

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PEREZ, Graciela Veneranda  e  JACQUETT-TOLEDO, Ninfa Lucía. Need for periodontal treatment in diabetic smokers and nonsmokers and its relation to clinical criteria. Mem. Inst. Investig. Cienc. Salud [online]. 2022, vol.20, n.2, pp.66-76. ISSN 1812-9528.  https://doi.org/10.18004/mem.iics/1812-9528/2022.020.02.66.

The objectiveof this study was to determine the correlation between the need for periodontal treatment and the following clinical criteria considered: time of evolution of diabetes, smoking, knowledge of the influence of diabetes, presence of visible calculus, tooth mobility, bleeding on probing in diabetic smokers and non-smokers attending the National Diabetes Program of the Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare during the months of April to September, 2014. A total of 242 randomly selected subjects who met the inclusion criteria participated in the study. A descriptive-correlational statistical analysis was performed, establishing a p-value <0.05 as the limit of significance. Regarding the results, a significant level of correlation was found (p<0.05) in knowledge of the influence of diabetes and highly significant (p<0.01) in community smoking index, presence of visible calculus, tooth mobility and bleeding on probing. In conclusion, an association was found between the following clinical criteria considered in this research: smoking, knowledge of the influence of diabetes, presence of visible calculus, tooth mobility, bleeding on probing in diabetic smokers and non-smokers.

Palavras-chave : diabetes mellitus; cigarette smokers; periodontics.

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