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St Petersburg Dentist Says

Smoking Is Slowly Killing

Your Teeth

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St Petersburg Dentist Says Smoking Is Slowly

Killing Your Teeth

There are many who consider smoking to be one of thefilthiest, least healthy habits a person can have. The typical

non-smoker finds cigarette smoke distasteful at best,

disgusting at worst. There are also a number of side effects

that smoking can have on the body which are damaging,particularly in the long-run. The fact that second-hand smoke

does even more damage to non-smokers than it does to

smokers does nothing to endear the habit to anyone. However,

aside from the obvious respiratory and circulatory

repercussions, there are other problems that are associatedwith smoking. Owing to the close proximity of the gums to

the smoke caused by the habit, smokers now make up 50% of

people with gum disease in the world.

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St Petersburg Dentist Says Smoking Is Slowly

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Smoking has been known to slow the healing process of thebody, particularly after surgical procedures. This is especially

true for orthodontic and dental surgery, which delve into the

areas that receive the most direct exposure to tobacco and

nicotine. Damage on the gums was originally found to havebeen aggravated by smoking, accelerating the rate of decay of

the gums and teeth. It was later found that it was possible to

have no previous dental damage at all and still suffer from the

side effects of smoking, because the smoke itself can cause

cellular decay in the gums. Another, recently discoveredproblem is that the smoke slowly undoes any repairs done to

the gums through surgery.

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Aside from these issues, there are also a number of otherproblems that smoking can cause the mouth, teeth, and gums.

Plaque, for example, becomes significantly harder to clean off.

It is unknown what exactly causes this to happen, but smokers

tend to have plaque build-up in their mouths that can only becleaned off by professional tools. This would not be a problem

if a person regularly visits a dentist for teeth cleaning oral

prophylaxis, a procedure that should be done every six

months. This runs the risk of letting the bacteria in the plaque

slowly eat away at the teeth, with some cases seeking help forthe problem too late.

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There is also a pronounced risk of the bone and support structure ofthe teeth being eaten away. Smoking is known to slowly kill off thecells in the gums, as well as impede upon natural regeneration inthat area. This can be dangerous if the gums and bones that supportthe teeth are already compromised by bacteria, tooth decay, or otherdamage. The fibers that hold the teeth in place recede when exposed

to tobacco, loosening the teeth. This may be a slow process, but thatonly makes it such that most people simply fail to notice theproblem until it is too late and the damage has already been done.

However, it isn't just cigarette smoke that causes these problems.Even smoke-less products that are based on tobacco cause this

damage, often in comparably similar degrees. According to severalstudies, both cigars and pipes cause the same cellular degenerationand damage rates as cigarette smoke. So far, all indications point tothe problem being firmly rooted in the tobacco in the products andnot necessarily the smoke itself.

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