IMPACT OF TOBACCO ON ORAL HEALTH

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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Effects of smoking in mouth

SMOKING AND SMOKELESS TOBACCO

Smokeless tobacco, such as chewing tobacco and snuff, are:

TOBACCO SNUFF

• Chewing tobacco: Long strands of loose leaves, plugs, or twists of tobacco.
  
  
• Snuff: Finely ground tobacco packaged in cans or pouches. It’s sold as dry or moist.

Some of the side effects include:

GUM DISEASE

• Gum disease that can lead to tooth loss.
• Tissue and bone loss around the roots of the teeth.
• Wear down of teeth.
• Stained and discolored teeth.

  

  TOBACCO STAINS

• Bad breath and bad taste.
• Slow healing after a tooth extraction or other surgery.
• Oral cancer.

TOOTH WEAR

ORAL CANCER

ORAL CANCER

ORAL CANCER

ORAL CANCER

Smokeless tobacco is not a healthy alternative to smoking. Quitting is the only way to decrease your risk of these and other tobacco-related health problems.

 The addictive quality of nicotine, which is found in cigarettes, cigars and chewing tobacco, can make this quitting difficult. Talk to your dentist or doctor to see if the medications available would help you to stop using tobacco.

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