A new study has revealed that dental visits may be an opportune site for diabetes screening and monitoring glucose control for many at-risk patients. Researchers tested blood samples of 408 dental patients and confirmed that using gingival crevicular blood (GCB) for hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) testing produced values that were nearly identical to those obtained using finger stick blood (FSB), with a correlation of 0.991 between the two blood samples. Study's ...
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