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Little Proof that Periodontal Treatment Improves Blood Sugar Levels
02/26/07
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A number of American researchers went back through medical and dental journals to see if they could find and document how periodontal treatments helped or did not help people with diabetes. The analysis that they performed involved looking a a few different studies that involved over 450 patients. They found that patients that received periodontal treatments actually reduced their A1C scores by 0.38%.
A number of American researchers went back through medical and dental journals to see if they could find and document how periodontal treatments helped or did not help people with diabetes. The analysis that they performed involved looking a a few different studies that involved over 450 patients. They found that patients that received periodontal treatments actually reduced their A1C scores by 0.38%.
While every little bit helps, it turns out that the small improvement was not enough to impress statisticians that this specific dental treatments really did much good for the improvement of diabetes.
Periodontal treatments seemed to have a little bit more affect on Type II diabetics, and the effect was enhanced when patients received antibiotics to treat their periodontal conditions.
Source: J Dent Res. 2005 December