Table 2.

Numbers (%) of participants according to their periodontal treatment needs (n = 140)

Variables	Healthy	Personal oral hygiene instruction	Professional gingival scaling
Study group
Diabetics	23 (32.9)	17 (24.2)	30 (42.9)
Non-diabetics	36 (51.4)	19 (27.2)	15 (2.4)
P	0.026*	0.699	0.007*
Sex
Male diabetics	36 (40)	25 (27.8)	29 (32.2)
Female diabetics	23 (46)	11 (22)	16 (32)
P	0.491	0.454	0.978

^*Indicates where differences were located.

A chi-square test was used to compare groups.