The assessment of two-way relationship between periodontal diseases and diabetes mellitus.

Periodontal disease and diabetes mellitus have been said to have a two-way relationship, with diabetes leading to oral disease and periodontitis exacerbating hyperglycemia. The universal biologic mechanisms and demographic and behavioral risk drivers, underlying these associations in both directions, are also described. Both the diseases are chronic and they are affecting large population worldwide. Periodontitis is also recognized as the sixth...