Dental considerations. Prior to dental treatment, the
dentist must obtain a complete medical history, which
indicates the type of diabetes suffered and complications, the treatment received and the status of diabetes
control. The recent consensus of the American Diabetes
Association and the European Association for the Study
of Diabetes (2009) (23) advocate glycated hemoglobin
as the main parameter to assess the metabolic control.
As a rule, a HbA1c