Misztal Zofia, Pawlicka Marta, Mroczek Anna, Bałabuszek Kamil, Ochyra Dorota, Pawlicki Mateusz. Diabetes and oral health. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2018;8(9):1083-1089 eISNN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1420211 http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/6008 https://pbn.nauka.gov.pl/sedno-webapp/works/877753 The journal has had 7 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. Part b item 1223 (26/01/2017). 1223 Journal of Education, Health and Sport eissn 2391-8306 7 © The Authors 2018; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author (s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial license Share alike. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 02.08.2018. Revised: 18.08.2018. Accepted: 15.09.2018. Diabetes and oral health Zofia Misztal1, Marta Pawlicka2, Anna Mroczek2, Kamil Bałabuszek2, Dorota Ochyra2, Mateusz Pawlicki2 1Medical University of Lodz, Poland 2Chair and Department of Epidemiology and Clinical Research Methodology, Medical University of Lublin, Poland Corresponding author: Zofia Misztal, e-mail: zosia.misztal6@gmail.com ORCID ID Zofia Misztal https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2317-9667 Marta Pawlicka https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6631-979X Anna Mroczek https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0077-5343 Kamil Bałabuszek https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1352-153X Dorota Ochyra https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8076-5622 Mateusz Pawlicki https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8318-6573 Abstract The main aim of this review is to pay attention to correlation between increasingly common disease all over the world, which is diabetes and oral cavity disorders. There were many retrospective studies and researches which improve this relationship but in some of them there exist doubts. There occurs two-way link between this diseases. On one way diabetes may increase the risk of developing periodontitis and on the other periodontal disorders might have impact on glycaemic control. In some cases was reported that periodontitis have influence on appearance of other complications not related to diabetes such as cardiovascular diseases, proteinuria, stroke, angina, retinopathy. Appropriate oral hygiene and controlling the diabetes leads to better glycaemic control and lower play scores and lower HbA. There is need to cooperation between physical and dentists to improve better condition of oral cavity to patients with diabetes and to better glycaemic control. Keywords: diabetes, oral health, dental carries