Gingival Blood Glucose Estimation With Reagent Test Strips: A Method to Detect Diabetes in a Periodontal Population

Abstract

The use of reagent strips for the estimation of gingival blood glucose seemed to be a suitable option for the screening of an unsuspecting periodontal population for the presence of diabetes; however, additional studies in a larger population are needed to confirm their suitability.

Noninvasive Technique for estimating Blood Glucose Levels among diabetic Patients

“…This finding of the present study is consistent with the most of previous studies of Wu et al, 11 Ardakani et al, 12 Shetty et al, 13 and Strauss et al 14 on the correlation between gingival crevicular and capillary blood glucose levels who also reported that GCB samples are suitable to screen for DM in individuals with sufficient bleeding on probing (BOP).…”

The Effect of Chairside Chronic Disease Screenings by Oral Health Professionals on Health Care Costs

“…Among 356 patients with no known history of diabetes who visited an outpatient periodontal clinic in India, diabetes was found in 19.1% of the patients. 15 In practice, physicians who detect an abnormal test result for the presence of chronic disease are inclined to provide medication to their patients. The thresholds upon which primary care physicians determine mediation treatment, particularly for diabetes and hypertension, have been lowered since the early 1990s, and newer guidelines encourage the treatment of prediabetes and prehypertension.…”

Identifying patients in dental settings at risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes

“…In our study, the correlation between oral health care and medical health care registrations based on blood pressure and plasma glucose indicates that it may be appropriate for dental professionals to perform opportunistic medical screening and refer risk patients to the medical care system doi: 10.7243/2052-4358-1-5 before complications occur. In order to identify medical risk patients in dental settings on the basis of high blood pressure, a suggestion may be to examine middle-aged men and elderly patients of both sexes who exhibit radiographic markers for marginal alveolar bone loss.…”

“…Rare frequent reasons included "don't want" and "have given lab-samples elsewhere". doi: 10.7243/2052-4358-1-5…”

“…These associations, combined with positive attitudes of doi: 10.7243/2052-4358-1-5 dentists make it desirable to implement medical screening for high BP [9] and DM [10] in dental settings. The purpose of our study was to identify patients in an ordinary real-world dental setting at risk of already having or developing high blood pressure or high plasma glucose, investigate possible associations between these conditions and periodontal status and explore the correlation between screening results and follow-up assessments concerning the need for medical treatment and/or lifestyle changes performed by medical staff.…”