Lesiones en la mucosa oral en una muestra de pacientes con diabetes tipo 2: liquen plano oral

IntroductionThe relationship between diverse pathologies of oral cavity and diabetes has been motivated a great number of studies. In general, it can be found a wide variety of lesions in oral cavity, which are more frequent in diabetic patients. The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between the presence of oral lichen planus and different parameters of diabetes such glycated hemoglogin, years of duration of diabetes, an type of treatment in a sample of type 2 diabetes patients.Material and methodsThe results of the anamnesis, intraoral examination and complementary tests were evaluated by means of statistical analysis. In addition, a bibliographical review in PubMed was realized for similar works.ResultsWe found a prevalence for the oral lichen planus in 9.1% in our sample as well as a statistically significant relationship between oral lichen planus presence and the type 2 diabetes duration (p= 0.021).ConclusionsOral lichen planus presence shows a significant relation with duration of type 2 diabetes, but not with neither the metabolic control nor the type of diabetes treatment.