The problems in the gums increase up to 6 times the risk of having a poorly controlled diabetes, as explained on Saturday the dentist Héctor J. Rodríguez Casanovas, who was president of the dentists of Las Palmas, during a conference he has taught in the ''Experience Day Diabetes' in Madrid.
In addition, he said that "people with diabetes have up to 3 times more risk of periodontitis-disease disease-advanced."
In his talk, Rodríguez Casanovas explained how symptoms such as gum bleeding "can indicate an imbalance in glucose levels."
"The fact of the bidirectional relationship between these two pathologies makes its importance even greater: diabetes is a risk factor for periodontitis, and periodontal diseases have demonstrated a negative effect on the control of blood glucose and complications of theDiabetes are more frequent in patients with periodontitis, "he said.
prevention would reduce health costs
The also director of the magazine 'Take care of your gums' and member of the Spanish Society of Periodontics and Osteointegration explained that "diabetes mellitus and periodontal diseases are part of the most common chronic chronic diseases" and maintained that "its high prevalence,Risk of associated sanitary complications and costs make its importance that importance cannot be ignored. "
Diabetes mellitus is of great importance in Spain for reasons such as its high prevalence (13.79%), with high prevalence of unknown diabetes (6.01%) and with continuous increases.
In fact, he said, "in a Diabetes Care publication in 1993, Löe suggested to call periodontal diseases, the sixth complication of diabetes."Periodontal diseases are among the most prevalent chronic diseases in the human being.
With global data, in 2010, advanced periodontitis was the sixth most prevalent pathology, affecting 743 million people to the whole world (11.2%), and without relevant changes of prevalence between 1990 and 2010. Only 14,8 14,8% Of Spaniards have healthy gums
The epidemiological data collected in Spain suggest, according to the most complete survey of 2005 (Bravo-Pérez 2006), which in adults between 35-44 years, only 14.8 percent would have healthy gums, 59.8 percentIt would have gingivitis, and 25.4 percent periodontitis.And in the elderly, 65-74, only 10.3 percent would have healthy gums;The rest would have some type of periodontal disease: 51.6 percent would have gingivitis and 38 percent periodontitis.
