Oral hygiene practices and periodontal diseases in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients

Aim:to assess the frequency of oral hygiene practices among type 2 diabetics with periodontal disease,visiting the dental outpatient department of bahawal victoria hospital bahawalpur. study design: descriptive cross sectional. place&duration of study: dental outpatient department of bahawal victoria hospital,bahawalpur,from january 2015 to june 2015. methods: all the patients of type ii diabetes mellitus between 40-70 years of age visiting the dental outpatient department during the study duration were included. immunosuppressive and with debilitating medical illnesses like cancers were excluded. data was collected by using preformed,pretested questionnaire that comprises of two parts. first part was related to socio-demographic variables of the respondents i.e. gender,monthly family income,education and occupation while second part is related to study variables i.e.,oral hygiene habit. the periodontal diseases were assessed by examining the ten index teeth in the oral cavity of each subject to represent all teeth. each index tooth was examined at three buccal and three lingual sites for the worst cpitn score. results: total 2360 patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus visiting dental outpatient department were included in the study. frequency of periodontal diseases among type 2 diabetes mellitus patients was 58%. sociodemographic profile of respondents showed that among patients with periodontal diseases 84% were from urban areas and 80% were male. 12% patients were illiterate,20% had primary education and 37% had graduation and above education. oral hygiene practices like teeth cleaning method (0.01),brushing frequency (0.0000),paste type (0.0000),brush before going to bed (0.000),and use of mouth rinse (0.000) were significantly related with periodontal diseases. conclusion: poor oral hygiene practices are significantly related with periodontal diseases among type 2 diabetes mellitus patients.