Periodontal Care and Glycemic Control in Diabetes

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2003-09-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Diabetes is a prevalent and costly disease among users of VA care. Goals of diabetes care include the prevention and/or delay of complications via adequate glycemic control. Improvements in periodontal status may also improve diabetes control.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: US Department of Veterans Affairs; VA Office of Research and Development
• Collaborator: Colgate-Periogard-Dentsply
• Treatments: Chlorhexidine; Chlorhexidine gluconate; Doxycycline

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Patients must have diabetes mellitus, and HbAlc >9, >8 teeth, and CPITN scores of 3 or 4 in, at least 2 sextants of the mouth, indicating moderate to high peridontal treatment need.

Exclusion Criteria: