Does Dental Care Play a Part in Controlling Blood Sugar Levels?
A recent study reported on in the journal Evidence-Based Dentistry, talked about how good oral hygiene and regular dental care might help in controlling blood sugar levels in diabetes generally. That’s what researchers in the Department of Dentistry, Toulouse University Hospital and Toulouse Dental School, Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse, France, found when they put together three earlier studies on treating periodontitis in diabetics. The three studies taken from the literature were pooled and analysed as if they were one large study. It was found that diabetics with periodontitis lowered their HbA1c levels over a period of 3 to 4 months when they had regular deep cleanings, followed regular oral hygiene and, in some cases, took antibiotics, compared with control groups of diabetics whose periodontitis was treated only with the usual care for 3 to 4 months. Most of the participants had Type 2 diabetes. Although it was concluded more research on treating periodontitis and controll
