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Tooth Loss in Patients With Diabetes

Data collected over 40 years analyzed

Publish date:: December 18, 2015

Substantial differences in tooth loss between adults with and without diabetes were seen in an analysis of data from 9 waves of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey involving 37,609 individuals.

Investigators looked at tooth loss trends by age groups, survey periods, and birth cohorts.

Among the results:

• Overall, those with diabetes lost about twice as many teeth as did those without diabetes.

• Blacks with diabetes lost more teeth as they aged than did whites or Mexican-Americans with diabetes.

• Over the 40-year period analyzed, there was a significant decreasing trend in the number of teeth lost among whites and blacks with diabetes.

The authors concluded that patients with diabetes need to be instructed more about appropriate dental care and tooth retention.

Citation: Luo H, Pan W, Sloan F, Feinglos M, Wu B. Forty-year trends in tooth loss among American adults with and without diabetes mellitus: An age-period-cohort analysis. [Published online ahead of print December 3, 2015]. Prev Chronic Dis. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.5888/pcd12.150309.

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