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2022, Vol. 24, No. 4
CONTENTS REVIEW © 2023 Stomatologija |
Stomatologija 2022; 24 (4): 100-3 Association between apical periodontitis and root canal treatment in patients with type II diabetes. A systematic review Karolina Budreikaitė1, Mariam Varoneckaitė1, Danielė Oleinikaitė1, Juozas Žilinskas2 Summary Background. Type II diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a chronic endocrine disease affecting over 6% of the world population. Sustained hyperglycaemia plays a role in inhibited healing and chronic inflammation which can lead to complications after root canal treatment, such as delayed healing of apical periodontitis. Material and methods. The systematic review adhered to PRISMA guidelines and databases of PubMed, ScienceDirect, and The Cochrane library were used to perform the search. The search was carried out between November 15 and November 30 in the year 2021. Aim. To evaluate the relationship between apical periodontitis and root canal treatment in patients with type II diabetes. Results. Primary database search yielded 313 results. After checking the content and relevance of the articles, 4 articles were used with a total of 15810 patients. Out of 4 studies, 3 concluded that apical periodontitis after root canal treatment was statistically significantly more frequent in patients with T2DM than in control groups. However, the results from another study showed that there is no significant correlation between T2DM and post-treatment apical periodontitis (p>0.05). Conclusions. A statistically significant relationship was found between T2DM patients and the occurrence of apical periodontitis in most studies. Key words: diabetes, apical periodontitis, root canal treatment, endodontics. Received: 22 02 2022 Accepted for publishing: 27 12 2022 1Faculty of Odontology, Medical Academy, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania 2Department of Prosthodontics, Faculty of odontology, Medical Academy, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania Address correspondence to Karolina Budreikaitė, Faculty of Odontology, Medical Academy, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Eivenių g. 2, LT-50161, Kaunas, Lithuania. E-mail address: karolinabudreikaite28@gmail.com |
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