Patients with diabetes are more susceptible to developing oral bacterial infections.
They are well known to have an impaired defense mechanism hence considered to be immuno-compromised.
Diabetics with diabetic complications and poor metabolic control are more prone to spreading and recurrent bacterial infection.
Several studies have reported that patients with diabetes are more prone to deep neck bacterial infection compared to patient without diabetes.
A fouryear prospective study by Rao et al. investigated the severity of maxillofacial space infection of odontogenic origin, the type of micro-organism, the sensitivity of the micro-organisms to antibiotics, and the length of hospital stay of patients with diabetes compared with patients without diabetes.