How Smoking Affects Your Dental Health??

Published Jun 6, 2021

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monica durai

Hey everyone, hope all are doing good…As we all know this saying,
HEALTH IS WEALTH, it all starts from our home. Maintaining a healthy lifestyle indeed influences your overall health. In that notice , I would like to share some ill effects of smoking over your dental health.

When I was a student during my UG days, it was very common that we all get to see many smoking patients coming to us and asking to make their teeth as white as possible. We can easily find out patients who get to smoke, still sometimes on a hilarious note, certain patients just deny that they don't smoke and try to divert us from proceeding to ask further questions.

This is how teeth looks for a person who smokes

Smoking feels like a matter of relaxation to many, but they are all unware of the fact that they aren't just spoiling their own health but also the environment. When a person smokes, he automatically pollutes the surrounding, so when other person inhales the smoke he passively acquires it and becomes a victim for the ill effects tobacco. One main reason why this ‘tobacco’ is considered to be hazardous is because of the contents present in it.

can you just imagine what happens when these hazardous materials enter into your body????

Smoking, apart from creating a major impact on your overall health , it is also associated as a main etiological factor in many diseases that affect your oral heath.

Let me share some common dental problems people face being a smoker,

Gum problems ( like swelling and bleeding of gums)

Swelling, redness, bleeding of gums can be noted

Tooth decay

The black spot is the area being affected that has formed a cavity inside the tooth

Teeth stains

The brown patches seen on the tooth are the stains caused by smoking

Teeth calculus

The yellow colored hard substance surrounding the lower part of the tooth is termed as calculus

Tooth loss

Tooth loss is also much common in smoking patients

The above stated conditions can be treated in a non- surgical manner like performing scaling(cleaning the stains and calculus of the teeth), filling the cavitated part of the tooth and replacing artificial tooth in case of tooth loss.

Oral cancer

Oral carcinoma(or oral cancer) is the advanced condition caused in a long term smoker or a tobacco chewer

This oral cancer can be treated properly in a surgical way with the patient consent. The recurrence rate of the cancer varies depending on other factors like age, systemic complication, the type of cancer the patient acquires(there are various types of oral cancers occurring in different parts of mouth like tongue, lip, cheek and etc.. )

Hoping this little piece of knowledge would have been helpful to you all and do think twice before you smoke because the loss not only affects you, but also the environment. So please try to make a change now, than never.