Periodontal Care and Glycemic Control in Diabetes

US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Poor Glycemic Control; Peridontal Disease; Diabetes Mellitus

Treatments: Drug: Doxycycline HCI 10mg po for 2 weeks; Procedure: Ultrasonic scaling with 0.12% chlorhexidine gluconate

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT00012688

DII 99-206

Details and patient eligibility

About

Diabetes is a prevalent and costly disease among users of VA care. Goals of diabetes care include the prevention and/or delay of complications via adequate glycemic control. Improvements in periodontal status may also improve diabetes control.

Full description

Background:

Diabetes is a prevalent and costly disease among users of VA care. Goals of diabetes care include the prevention and/or delay of complications via adequate glycemic control. Improvements in periodontal status may also improve diabetes control.

Objectives:

This project will determine the efficacy of a program of periodontal screening and therapy in improving the level of glycemic control in poorly controlled diabetics.

Methods:

Status:

Subject accrual is complete. Data collection is ongoing.

Enrollment: 300 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Patients must have diabetes mellitus, and HbAlc >9, >8 teeth, and CPITN scores of 3 or 4 in, at least 2 sextants of the mouth, indicating moderate to high peridontal treatment need.

Exclusion Criteria:

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Factorial Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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300 participants in 1 patient group

Arm 1

Other group

Treatment:

Procedure: Ultrasonic scaling with 0.12% chlorhexidine gluconate

Drug: Doxycycline HCI 10mg po for 2 weeks