Rootz Dental Care and Implant Center: #oralcancer

TOBACCO ON ORAL HEALTH

Tobacco has serious negative effects not only for your overall health, but specifically the soft and hard tissues of your mouth. Both smoking and chewing tobacco have serious risks, including oral cancer, gum disease, poor healing after surgery, receding gums, and tooth decay.

SMOKING :

Cigarettes contain over 4,800 chemicals, 69 of which are known to cause cancer. As you inhale, the smoke lingers in your mouth before you exhale. Smoking directly affects your oral health because it, reduces blood flow to your gums, reduces the vitamin C levels needed to keep gums healthy, and raises the temperature in the mouth which causes damage to important cells.

SMOKELESS TOBACCO :

Smokeless tobacco is just as bad for you as smoking. In fact, chewing tobacco allows the harmful chemicals and substances to stay in your mouth longer and come into direct contact with your teeth and gums. This causes rapid tooth decay, gum disease, and oral cancer. Smokeless tobacco users are up to 50 times more likely to develop oral cancer, especially in areas where chewing tobacco is held in your mouth.

EFFECTS :

CONCLUSION:

Brushing and flossing can help, but nothing can completely eradicate the negative impact that smoking and chewing has on breath. Smoking dries out the mouth. Without an adequate level of saliva in the mouth, bacteria does not get rinsed away naturally, thus causing bad breath and oftentimes tooth decay. So, "DON'T LET TOBACCO DESTROY YOU, START DESTROYING TOBACCO".

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Mouth cancer — red sore

Signs and symptoms of mouth cancer may include:

· A sore that doesn't heal

· A sore that bleeds

· A growth, lump or thickening of the skin or lining of your mouth

· Loose teeth

· Poorly fitting dentures

· Tongue pain

· Jaw pain or stiffness

· Difficult or painful chewing

· Difficult or painful swallowing

· Sore throat

When to see a doctor

Make an appointment with your dentist if you have any persistent signs and symptoms that bother you and last more than two weeks. Your doctor will likely investigate other more common causes for your signs and symptoms first, such as an infection.

Causes

Mouth cancer occurs when cells on your lips or in your mouth develop changes (mutations) in their DNA. These mutations allow cancer cells to continue growing and dividing when healthy cells would die. The accumulating abnormal mouth cancer cells can form a tumor. With time they may spread inside the mouth and on to other areas of the head and neck or other parts of the body.

Mouth cancers most commonly begin in the flat, thin cells (squamous cells) that line your lips and the inside of your mouth. Most oral cancers are squamous cell carcinomas.

It's not clear what causes the mutations in squamous cells that lead to mouth cancer. But doctors have identified factors that may increase the risk of mouth cancer.

Risk factors

Factors that can increase your risk of mouth cancer include:

· Tobacco use of any kind, including cigarettes, cigars, pipes, chewing tobacco and snuff, among others

· Heavy alcohol use

· Excessive sun exposure to your lips

· A sexually transmitted virus called human papillomavirus (HPV)

· A weakened immune system

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