Study on the Relationship between General Health and Oral Health According to Diabetes

Background/Objectives: In this study, the relation between the health level and oral health in middle aged according to the diabetes were examined.

Method/Statistical Analysis: For this study, raw data were requested to Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and among them, the data for 3,049 citizens in D Metropolitan City were analyzed. The statistical software R program was used for the analysis.

Findings: In the results of performing multiple logistic regression analysis taking the diabetes as dependent variable, the cases having the chronic disease, dyslipidemia, arthritis, and inconvenient mastication and the case that they did not brushing the tooth after breakfast and before sleep were shown significantly high (p<0.05).

Improvements/Applications: This study was intended to verify the needs of prevention for the efficient oral health management in patients with diabetes and to be utilized as basic data to develop the product for oral health improvement in the patients with diabetes.