Acute Fascial Space Abscess upon Dental Implantation to Patients with Diabetes Mellitus.

Author: Chae Yoon LEE ¹ ; Baek Soo LEE ; Yong Dae KWON ; Joo Young OH ; Jung Woo LEE ; Suk HUH ; Byeong Joon CHOI
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1. Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, School of Dentistry, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea. sjnb2@hanmail.net
Publication Type:Case Report
Keywords: Deep neck abscess; Diabetes mellitus; Implant complication; Klebsiella pneumoniae
MeSH: Abscess*; Complement System Proteins; Dental Implantation*; Dental Implants*; Diabetes Mellitus*; Humans; Immunity, Cellular; Klebsiella pneumoniae; Neutrophils
From:Journal of Korean Dental Science 2015;8(2):89-94
CountryRepublic of Korea
Language:English
Abstract: As popularity of dental implantation is increasing, the number of cases associated with complications also increase. Evaluation on diabetes mellitus is often neglected due to the disease's irrelevance to implantability. However, patients with diabetes mellitus are susceptible to infection due to impaired bactericidal ability of neutrophils, cellular immunity and activity of complements. Due to this established connection between diabetes mellitus and infection, a couple of cases were selected to present patients with diabetes mellitus with glycemic incontrollability, suffering from post-implantation dentigerous inter-fascial space abscess.