Background: Improvements in implant design, surface characteristics, and surgical protocols made implants a secure and highly predictable procedure. Diabetes mellitus has long been considered a relative contraindication to dental implant therapy.Hence; we planned the present study to assess the prognosis of dental implants in diabetic patients. Materials & methods: The present study included evaluation of prognosis of dental implants in diabetic patients. A total of 100 patients were included in the present study. Among these 100 patients, 50 patients were diabetic while the remaining 50 patients were non-diabetic. Skilled oral surgeons performed the oral dental implant procedures in all the patients. We obtained complete demographic details of all the patients. Only those patients were included in the present study that underwent prosthetic rehabilitation for missing permanent mandibular molars. Follow-up details and records of all the patients were obtained and recorded on excel sheet. Evaluation of all the results was done by SPSS software.  Results: Success rate of dental implants among diabetic patients was 86 percent while success rate of dental implants among non-diabetic patients was 90 percent. However; we didn’t observe any significant difference while comparing the prognosis of dental implants among diabetic and non-diabetic patients. Conclusion: Dental implants can be successfully placed in diabetic patients by taking adequate precautionary measures.
Key words: Dental implants, Diabetes, Prognosis.