Estado de las publicaciones en enfermedad periodontal y relación con la diabetes mellitus

Abstract

Introduction: It has been shown that patients suffering from DM may have a higher risk of developing periodontitis, and that diabetics diagnosed with periodontitis that has not been treated in a manner to properly or simply not treated it more difficult to control glucose serum. It has also been reported that elevated levels of periodontal disease are common among people with diabetes compared to healthy subjects . Objective: to describe the degree of knowledge by number of publications that exists in the literature on the relationship between diabetes and periodontal disease, through a literature review and bibliometrics. Methodology: to fulfill the research objective was conducted a literature review of the literature, which generated some scientific publication in an indexed journal Results: published a total of 290 items. These contain 14,184 references. The largest number of items corresponds to scientific articles (260), followed by reviews (27), conference abstracts (3). The largest country in Latin America with publishing articles on this association was Brazil, followed by Puerto Rico and Chile. The largest number of publications was the United States (97), Japan (21), Brazil (15). Conclusion: This work allowed knowledge of the situation of scientific production roughly on the relationship between diabetes and periodontal disease international anivel.