THE EFFECT OF SMOKING ON ORAL AND DENTAL HEALTH
It is a stimulant substance that contains substances such as nicotine, tar, arsenic, benzene, formaldehyde, carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide and nitrogen oxides are causes thousans of people death and addiction every year in our country.
Smoking in the body of the lungs and bronchi, especially the trachea, heart, digestive system, pancreas, kidneys can lead to diseases that can not be treated. In addition to this damage, when the cigarette is first contacted in our body, it causes problems on the soft tissues and teeth in the mouth area.
EFFECTS OF SMOKING ON ORAL TISSUE AND TEETH:
• Halitosis: Smoking for a long time causes bad smells in the mouth called halitosis. In addition, the physiological bad breath are also felt in smokers much more. Treatment of mouth odor is multifactorial. Therefore, all problematic teeth in the mouth should be treated. The amount of cigarettes are used must be reduced. If the patient suffers from quitting smoking, he / she can regularly check the dentist and reduce bad breath.
• Teeth Pigmentation: Due to the nicotine content of cigarettes, it causes internal pigmentation in long term and external pigmentation in short term. Superficial cigarette pigmentation can be eleminated by dentists with pumice and polish application. The inner pigmentations that occur in long-term smokers are only possible with the treatment we call bleaching. However, bleaching treatment may not be successful in patients who are still smoking.
• Gingival diseases: The most important effects of smoking on oral tissues occur in gingival tissues. The substances in the cigarette cause to decrease blood circulation in the gums. This causes the individual to be prone to gingival problems, to increase the formation of calculus, to the gingival recession and to the diseases of the soft tissues around the tooth we call periodontitis. Gum Diseases ATTENTION !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• Mouth wounds: The increase in the incidence of the formation of intra-oral wounds that we call a non-aphthous wounds and resulting in the occurrence of delayed healing of intra-oral wounds. For this reason, it causes delays in wound healing in tooth extraction and increases in the probability of failure in the treatment with implants.
• Change in taste sense: There are structures in our mouth that we call papillae. Smoking causes a decrease in the blood circulation on the oral tissue and a decrease in the taste of the food we eat.
• Black hairy tongue appereance: As a result of long-term smoking on the tongue as a result of prolonged taste buds and a black hairy tongue emerged.
• Oral cancer: The smoking has been proven to cause damage to the immune system. The weakening of the immune system increases the susceptibility to oral cancer. Tobacco contains carcinogenic substances and increases the likelihood of oral cancer.
