Objectives
The objectives of this paper are: firstly, to do a review of
literature about diabetes mellitus, and the repercussions
of the disease in dentistry; and, secondly, to summarize
the management strategies that can be put into practice
in the dental office to treat these patients.
Material and Methods
For this review, we selected articles from the PubMed-
Medline database. We searched for them using key words
controlled by MeSh, all of them referred to diabetes, its
complications and considerations for the dental management.
The following limits were utilized: articles written
in Spanish or in English and published in the 1993- 2010
period. A total of 25 articles were chosen: 8 reviews of
literature (1 of them being a systematic review); 7 transversal
studies; 2 meta- analysis; 3 panels of experts; 2
clinical cases; 1 randomized clinical assay; 1 letter to the
editor and 1 case- control study.
Results