Incidence of oral candidiasis in diabetic patients

: Yeast infections play an important role in diabetics. Therefore poorly controlled diabetics and diabetics who have high levels of serum glucose carry a high risk. In the present study, 52 diabetics aged between 17-75 years old have been investigated by means of the incidence of oral candida and have been compared with control group of 33 healthy individuals. In poorly controlled diabetics, the rate of candida growth found high. It is also observed that this ratio is higher in type I than type II, and candida growth rate increased as well as serum glucose level. All of these results are found to be statistically important.