Salivary insulin hormone in relation to caries-experience among insulin-dependent diabetic children

Abstract EN

Background : diabetic children are a specific group who requires a proper dental care and a special preventive program.

This can be achieved not merely by studying the distribution and severity of oral diseases but also by the understanding of their etiological factors.

The objective of this study was conducted to investigate the severity of dental caries among insulin dependent diabetic children in relation to salivary insulin hormone.

Materials and methods : the study group consisted of 60 diabetic children (30 with long duration) and (30 newly diagnosed), in addition to 30 control healthy non diabetic children.

Dental caries was recorded by lesion severity through the application of decayed missing filled surfaces (1).

Stimulated salivary samples were collected and salivary samples were chemically analyzed, for detection of insulin hormone.

Results and conclusion : the mean value of salivary insulin hormone concentration was higher in the control group.

Difference was statistically highly significant.

Statistically significant correlation was found in insulin hormone with (DS) fraction in the long duration diabetic group.