Dental Care and Treatment of Children with Diabetes Mellitus - An Overview

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a group of metabolic diseases characterized by hyperglycemia resulting from defects in insulin secretion, insulin action or both [1] there is an increase in the prevalence of type 1diabetes also, but main cause of diabetic epidemic is type2 diabetes mellitus, which accounts for more than 90 percent of all diabetes cases. World Health Organization (WHO) reported, India had 32 million diabetic people in the year 20001 [2]. The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) estimates the total number of diabetic subjects to be around 40.9 million in India and this is further set to rise to 69.9 million by the year 2025 [3]. The majority of cases of diabetes fall into two broad etiopathogenic categories now called type 1 and T2 DM.