Salivary Distinctiveness and Modifications in Males with Diabetes and Behçet’s Disease

Table 1

pH, SFR, DMFT, glucose, and electrolytes of whole saliva from patients with TIDM, TIIDM, and Behçet disease compared with control groups.

Level	pH	SFR (mL/min)	DMFT index	Glucose (mg/dL)	Ca^2+ (mM)	Mg^2+ (mM)
1	7.10 ± 0.72	0.82 ± 0.24	0.99 ± 0.72	0.96 ± 0.31	1.84 ± 0.64	0.15 ± 0.02
2	7.03 ± 0.70	1.07 ± 0.39	4.25 ± 0.19	2.29 ± 0.72	2.20 ± 0.07	0.47 ± 0.05
3	7.22 ± 0.75	0.92 ± 0.31	4.68 ± 0.28	2.33 ± 1.31	1.97 ± 0.43	0.21 ± 0.03
4	6.14 ± 0.42; (0.003)	0.27 ± 0.12; (0.056)	5.46 ± 1.82; (0.005)	8.93 ± 4.47; (0.011)	1.48 ± 0.39; (0.069)	0.23 ± 0.03; (0.055)
5	6.62 ± 0.46; (0.053)	0.73 ± 0.26; (0.037)	8.38 ± 0.28; (0.012)	10.28 ± 5.26; (0.005)	1.16 ± 0.39; (0.026)	0.38 ± 0.07; (0.064)
6	5.92 ± 0.32; (0.000)	0.67 ± 0.21; (0.065)	14.18 ± 3.25; (0.017)	13.37 ± 6.97; (0.003)	0.28 ± 0.01; (0.014)	0.10 ± 0.02; (0.057)
7^(1)	7.80 ± 0.96; (0.001)	0.74 ± 0.29; (0.539)	10.16 ± 5.44; (0.028)	1.11 ± 0.42; (0.013)	0.18 ± 0.05; (0.033)	0.02 ± 0.00; (0.024)

Differences of distributions in the two groups (patient-control) are presented as critical values for Mann–Whitney test in parentheses; level of significance: 5% ().
⁽¹⁾Streptococcus mutans (S. mutans) (74.6% in patients with active oral ulcers versus 25.4% in inactive ulcers; ) in the whole saliva was remarkably associated with disease severity, oral ulcers, and DMFT. S. mutans is a major etiology factor for the development of dental caries and is a member of oral biofilm [27]. Furthermore, no significant difference was observed in the healing time of oral ulcers for active (7.8 ± 1.4 days) and inactive (7.5 ± 2.2 days) diseases.