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Postgraduate Medicine Volume 102, 1997 - Issue 6
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What the mouth has to say about diabetes

Careful examinations can avert serious complications

Lois Schmidt Finney Lois Schmidt Finney, RD, MPH, CDE, registered dietitian and certified diabetes educator, coordinates the Diabetes Prevention Trial, Type I, at the University of Minnesota Medical School—Minneapolis.
, RD, MPH, CDE,
Mark O. Finney Mark O. Finney, DDS is a general dentist in private practice.
, DDS &
J. Michael Gonzalez-Campoy J. Michael Gonzalez-Campoy, MD, PhD, is clinical assistant professor, department of medicine, University of Minnesota, and consultant in diabetes, endocrinology, and metabolism, Park Nicollet Clinic HealthSystem Minnesota and the International Diabetes Center, Minneapolis.Correspondence[email protected]
, MD, PhD
Pages 117-126 | Published online: 30 Jun 2015
 
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It might be time to add another “opathy” to the list of complications of diabetes. “Periodontopathy” could very well describe the mouth disorders that affect many patients with either type 1 or type 2 diabetes. Fortunately, as the authors of this article point out, there are a number of things that can be done to reduce the risks—not the least of which is a careful search for what the mouth can tell us.

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