Oral symptoms and oral hygiene behaviours among patients with type 2 diabetes at a hospital in Japan: A cross‐sectional study

Abstract

Diabetes mellitus is a group of metabolic disorders with high mortality and morbidity associated with complications such as neuropathy, retinopathy, nephropathy, cardiovascular disease and stroke. 1 Diabetes has a rapidly increasing prevalence worldwide. 2 In 2019, 19.7% of males and 10.8% of females in Japan were strongly suspected of having diabetes. The prevalence of diabetes also increases markedly with age, with one in six adults aged ≥20 years affected by diabetes, approximately 95% of them affected by type 2 diabetes. 3,4