Oral hygiene is an important etiological factor related to oral
health status in children. The aim of the study was to evaluate the oral
hygiene status in children with type I diabetes mellitus (DM) and in
their non-diabetic controls, and to correlate it with the health
condition of the gingival tissues. Materials and methods: seventy 10-15
year-old children (mean age13.6, SD=1.6) with type I DM and 70 their age
and sex- matched non-diabetic controls were included in the study. The
metabolic control of DM was categorized into well- to- moderately
controlled and poorly-controlled diabetes groups based on glycosylated
haemo- globin HbA1c. The oral hygiene and gingival status were assessed
using the Simplified Oral hygiene index OHI-S (Greene-Vermillion) and
gingival index GI (Löe-Silness), respectively. Student’s t, Mann-
Whitney U or chi-square tests and linear regression were used in the
statistical analyses.
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