while age ranged between 30 to 68 years. The study included 158 participants with 78 participants as a control group and 80 participants as patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and recruitment followed the order of admission. There was no significant difference observed between the controls and the diabetic patients based on the gender distribution and males comprised of 27.8% of controls (p=0.628) and 31.0% of people with diabetes as presented in table 1 having clinical findings dental history and demographic features of the study participants (Al-Khabbaz 2014). The control and study groups presented a statistical difference in their tooth brushing frequency while both control and diabetic patients had considerably low dental visits frequency with 45 % of the individuals visiting the dental services for the past year. The diabetic patients had a considerably higher proportion and a number of sites with clinical attachment loss than the control participants (p? 0.01) (table 1) despite them having a lower mean plague score compared to the diabetic-free individuals.
