Gingival crevicular blood: As a non-invasive screening tool for diabetes mellitus in dental clinics

• Main Authors: Neema Shetty (Author), Rajesh Shankarapillai (Author), Lalit Kumar Mathur (Author), Balaji Manohar (Author), Aditi Mathur (Author), Meetu Jain (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: A high number of patients with periodontitis may have undiagnosed diabetes. Self-monitoring devices provide a simple method for rapid monitoring of the glucose level in the blood by utilizing a blood sample from the finger, but this method requires a needle puncture to obtain blood. It i...