[Diabetes mellitus and Candida albicans].

According to Salomon, diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease caused by inadequate insulin action. As a syndrome, it could come in practice in many different forms. This disease, from genetic aspect presents a very heterogeneous phenomenon. For that reason a research of oral cavity tissue in diabetic patients presents a very complex problem from the scientific point of view. Truly, in the research today there are controversial cognition about relationship between diabetes mellitus and oral cavity diseases: diabetic stomatopathy, oral candidiasis, alterations of oral mucosa and periodontia. In this paper a special aspect is given to the research of incidence of candidiasis which is the result of contamination of all other pathological alterations in oral cavity.