Awareness of the bidirectional relationship between diabetes, periodontal diseases, and its risk factors among diabetic patients in the Asir region, Saudi Arabia

• Main Authors: Haifa Nasser S. Alsharif (Author), Jawharah Ali Y. Mari (Author), Rawan Saeed A. Shafloot (Author), Ghydaa Sultan H. Alhufayyan (Author), Ghadah Khaled Bahamdan (Author), Mukhatar Ahmed Javali (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Introduction: Bidirectional relationship between diabetes and periodontal diseases has been recognized and accepted in the literature for a long time and shown to influence each other in both development and disease progression. Age, obesity, stress, smoking, and genetic predisposition are considere...