Evaluation of the Oral Condition of Women Predisposed to Diabetes Mellitus

―Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a chronic disease with serious long-term, debilitating complications and no known cure‖ (1). The World Health Organization (2) estimated 177 million people had DM worldwide in 2010; and expected to reach 350 million people by 2025, with devastating social and economic consequences. In Brazil, an estimated 10.3% of the population has DM (3). There is a strong genetic component that determines the onset and progression of diabetes, but the environment in which the individual lives decisively contributes to the development of the disease. Therefore, is it possible that daughters, without DM, born to mothers with DM have same buccal alterations reported in people with diabetes? This transversal observational study investigated whether daughters of diabetic mothers, predisposed to diabetes, have changes in oral health compared to healthy women of the same age. The study sample was comprised of 83 Brazilian women aged, 18 to 60 yr (mean age: 39 yr), who received dental care at Positivo University, Curitiba, Brazil (table 1).