Oral manifestations of diabetes mellitus in elder people

Abstract

Through the history, the man has been always worried about ageing; currently it is worldwide phenomena without precedents in the history of the human kind. Diabetes mellitus is among the chronic diseases that are characteristic of the elder age, being this an endocrine-metabolic complex disease, of chronic curse, that may contribute to the emergence of oral diseases. The objective was characterizing elder population with Diabetes mellitus and to identify the main oral manifestations caused for that disease. The information was gathered using information searchers and scientific platforms: Pubmed, Scielo, Springer, ClinicalKey. 36 articles were consulted.  As the most relevant results were stated that ageing is a process occurring to any living creature as a consequence of the interaction of the individual’s genetic and his environment, and that dental caries, periodontitis and gingivitis are the most frequent oral manifestations of the Diabetes mellitus.   There is an important relation between Diabetes mellitus and the emergence of oral manifestations.