title: Relationship of tooth mortality and implant treatment in Type 2 diabetes mellitus patients in Korean adults.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The purpose of this study was to to analyze the effect of Type 2 diabetes on tooth mortality, implant treatment and prosthetic status.
  
  
  METHODS
  275 Type 2 diabetics and 300 non-diabetics, aged 40-80 years were selected for analysis. The assessment of number of teeth, missing teeth, fixed prostheses (bridge pontics), implants using panoramic radiographs and dental records were carried out.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Diabetes mellitus (DM) patients had a higher number of missing teeth (P<.05) and placed implants (P=.074), age (P<.05), male gender percentage (P=.042), smoker percentage (P<.05) than non-DM patients. In univariate analysis, the patients in older group showed significantly higher number of tooth loss rate at the first dental examination than the patients in younger group. Tooth loss rate of smokers did not show higher value than that of non-smokers. When multiple variables including DM, age, smoking, gender were considered together, diabetics and older group patients showed significantly higher tooth loss rate at the first dental examination than non-diabetics and younger group patients, respectively. Smokers and male group did not show a significant difference than non-smokers and female group, respectively.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Tooth mortality and implant treatment rate were significantly higher in the DM group as indicated by univariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis. Old age groups showed significantly higher odds ratios and tooth loss rate. As diabetics showed the higher tooth loss rate than non-diabetics, diabetics also had more implant restorations than non-diabetics.
authors.affiliation: Department of Periodontics, College of Dentistry, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Hyun-Yub
authors.initials: HY
authors.lastname: Jung
authors.forename: Yong-Gun
authors.initials: YG
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Myoung-Uk
authors.initials: MU
authors.lastname: Jin
authors.forename: Jin-Hyun
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Cho
authors.forename: Jae-Mok
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Lee
keywords: Diabetic mellitus; Implant restoration; Prosthetic status; Tooth loss