Awareness among health care professionals regarding interrelationship between diabetes mellitus and

The interrelationship between periodontal disease and Diabetes Mellitus (DM) provides an example of a cyclical association, whereby a systemic disease predisposes the individual to oral infections, and once the oral infection is established, it exacerbates the systemic disease. There is a need for greater collaboration and increased numbers of cross-referrals between medical and dental professionals. A limited awareness was observed among health care professionals participating in a study for Diabetes-Periodontics Interrelationships (DPI), highlighting a gap of knowledge, attitude, and practice for DPI, which was higher among Non-Oral Health Care Practitioners (NOHCP) as compared to Oral Health Care Professionals (OHCPs). Society in overall should be updated from time to time regarding recent studies and current trends in interprofessional collaborative practice (ICP) management of chronic diseases. They recognized the need to fill the gap in knowledge and to contribute for the promotion of oral and periodontal health among their patients by emphasizing on routine oral health checkup to their patients and vice-versa as an important step in the overall management of DM. Community-level awareness programs for the general population, as well as patient counselling at the individual level about DPI by any health care provider, are of paramount importance