[Diabetes mellitus in ambulatory stomatosurgical practice]

The authors evaluated in 58 patients aged 27-65 years the pre- and postextraction bacteremia after a simple extraction at intervals of 5 minutes, 1 hour, 24 and 72 hours. From the group of 58 examined patients 35 suffered from diabetes mellitus--11 type 1, 24 type 2. Before extraction bacteremia was not found in any of the examined patients. Five minutes after extraction bacteremia was recorded in 50% of the diabetic patients, more frequently in type 1 than type 2. Bacteremia was found in 8% of patients with type 1 diabetes even after 24 hours. The authors recommend to assess in addition to the blood sugar level also so-called glycohaemoglobin which they began to assess regularly in diabetic patients.