Abstract
Diabetes Mellitus is emerging as a major health problem over these years. It's a chronic condition, results in significant medical comorbidities, which directly and indirectly account for a huge component of the health care system costs. Diabetes must be managed and screened properly to maintain normal glucose level. The most commonly used laboratory diagnostic procedures is checking the blood glucose. Saliva is the second option that reflects the blood glucose status since the saliva can be collected easily (non-invasively) by individuals without training. This research is aiming to correlate salivary glucose level and blood glucose among diabetics versus non-diabetics and to evaluate the effect of oral hygiene on the salivary glucose level. We used a Study design and study sample, a Case control study design adopted to study the difference between salivary and blood glucose levels among diabetics and nondiabetics to see the difference between the results.
Objectives: To Correlate Salivary Glucose level and blood glucose among diabetics versus non-diabetics, and to evaluate the effect of oral hygiene on the salivary glucose level.
Methods: This case-control study was conducted on 50 diabetic patients as the case and 50 healthy subjects as the control group. Blood and salivary glucose levels will be measured in the two groups. Questionnaire: it includes, data about demographic profile, diabetes history as duration of disease, type and possible complications, oral hygiene and Patients opinion about the glucose check machines. Salivary samples to test glucose level, a sample of about 10 ml of saliva collected all Participants were fasting. Blood glucose will be measured at the same time.
Conclusion: Salivary glucose is promising method that body fluids reflect the blood state and it helps in screening a diseases, but there are some challenges regarding the salivary state such as oral hygiene, diseases relates to the salivary secretion and gender. Our final study results showed a positive correlation between the blood and salivary glucose which is significantly supporting our hypothesis that was conducted among control and diabetic participants.