[DMF/S study of children with different duration of diabetes (author's transl)]

The objective of this study was to determine the DMF/S indices of 101 children, make regression analyses, and compare the regression coefficients of subjects, in whom diabetes mellitus became manifest before the beginning of secondary dentition, with the regession coefficients of patients with a duration of diabetes as long as three years. It has been found that in the case of manifestation of diabetes before the commencement of secondary dentition the D3-4 MF/S index was significantly lower compared to subjects with a duration of diabetes up to a maximum of three years and the DMF/S index of individual subjects was anything but low despite a specific diet.--From our present knowledge of the pathogenesis of caries it is possible to conclude that a high incidence of caries in the case of early manifestation of diabetes is due primarily to a lack of therapeutic cooperation of the patient.