Abstract
A study on a stratified sample of 120 adult registered diabetic patients from the only two diabetes clinics in Ibadan, University College Hospital (UCH) and Ring Road Government Hospital and fifty (50) healthy adult nondiabetic volunteers as control, shows that 51.48% of the interviewees have never visited the dental clinic in their lifetime. Also 43.3% of both diabetes and healthy control groups have not visited the dental clinic for more than one year. The mean duration since their last visit was 3.47 yrs (SD±2.48yrs). Interviewees with higher educational status; post-Secondary School Higher Education, had statistically significant lower percentage frequency of nonattendance 15.79% (P
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