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ALVEOLAR BONE LOSS AS A PROGNOSTIC SIGN OF DIABETES IN PATIENTS OF THE 60‐PLUS AGE GROUP
Author(s) -
CHERASKIN E.,
RINGSDORF W. M.
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
journal of the american geriatrics society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.992
H-Index - 232
eISSN - 1532-5415
pISSN - 0002-8614
DOI - 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1970.tb03675.x
Subject(s) - medicine , carbohydrate metabolism , dental alveolus , cortisone , diabetes mellitus , carbohydrate , endocrinology , dentistry
A bstract : This study was undertaken in 19 presumably healthy elderly persons, to see if there was any relationship between alveolar bone loss and carbohydrate metabolism. In 9 of the subjects, alveolar bone loss, as determined by periapical radiography of the anterior teeth and graded on a 7‐point scale, was correlated with carbohydrate metabolism as judged from the results of the conventional glucose tolerance test. In the other 10 subjects, alveolar bone loss, estimated on a percentage basis, was correlated with carbohydrate metabolism judged according to the results of the cortisone glucose tolerance test. Within the limits of this study, there appeared to be a relationship between bone loss and blood glucose concentration. The subjects with the greatest bone loss had the highest blood glucose levels.