IMPORTANT ORAL MANIFESTATIONS OF METABOLIC DISORDERS

🔹DIABETES MELLITUS: Severe periodontitis with loosening of teeth, gingivitis and painful gingival, burning mouth syndrome, delayed wound healing, mucosal ulceration, acetone breath, increased risk of infection, bilateral nontender enlargement of parotids (diabetic sialadenitis), xerostomia, gingival hyperplasia, candidiasis and atrophy of tongue papillae.

🔹AMYLOIDOSIS: Macroglossia with smooth, brawny and in durated tongue, localized, yellow, non-ulcerated nodules on the oral mucosa. Hoarseness of voice, dry mouth, claudication of the jaw, petechiae and ecchymosis of the oral mucosa

🔹HURLER’S SYNDROME: Short and broad mandible, delayed eruption of teeth, multiple radiolucencies in the jawbone, diastema, hyperplastic dental follicles