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How smoking affects the health of gums?

February 4, 2011 By Dr. Chetan 5 Comments

melanin pigment smokingOnce your milk teeth are gone, the set we get are the ones for our entire life. Our teeth are helpful in making us serve do a large number of things and most significantly, they help us chewing the food. Thus, it is extremely necessary for us to take care of such priceless and precious tools as they are useful in making us strong and healthy.

There are large number of habits that lead to have negative impacts on our teeth and one of them is smoking. Smoking largely affects the individuals’ respiratory system, the lungs mainly along with leaving some horrible and terrible effect on several other body parts as well. Smoking leads to affect your teeth and gums greatly and as a result, you may happen to come across serious and critical oral health issues.

Smoking is just closely connected to the disease of mouth cancer and only this problem alone can be sufficient to illuminate the harmful and critical affects on smoking on your teeth’s and their health. It also causes your gums to become inflamed and puffy. It greatly reduces the flow of blood to the gums and consequently they become extremely weak which ultimately results in weaker teeth and bleeding gums. Once you happen to puff a cigarette, it is going to make your mouth extremely dry along with significantly reducing the amount of saliva in your mouth.

smoking effects

If you are not aware of the saliva’s role then you should need to know that it plays an extremely vital and significant role in cleaning any sort of oral cavity along with keeping your mouth healthy, and stronger teeth and gums. Consequently, smoking is helpful in jeopardizing your oral health, cleanliness and ultimately causing problems and one of them includes bad breath.
On the other hand, you should also know this that after you have been smoking; it is useful in staining your teeth and eventually causing them to become yellowish in color. This happens as a result of the cigarette’s tar gets deposited on the teeth while you are smoking and this makes them looked stained and yellow in color. This does not only looks horrible but it also corrodes the natural protective covers of your teeth and makes them go weak along with making your gums bulging.

Learn more about tobacco chewing and its effects, and how avoiding smoking can be one of the best ways in keeping your teeth healthy.

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Comments

  1. Assure a Smile says

    February 18, 2011 at 2:40 am

    Yuck, that second picture is gross!

    Further proof that smoking is TERRIBLE for you. It’s never too late to quit!

  2. dental care says

    February 19, 2011 at 2:08 pm

    As we know smoking is injurious to health. It also affect our teeth also.

  3. Curing Bad Breath says

    February 24, 2011 at 3:00 pm

    Smoking affects the entire body and in numerous ways, too. Not to mention people who are around you who are forced to be passive smokers just by inhaling the deadly smoke from your cigarette. And last but not the least affected are the children you will parent who will end up having cancer and other fatal diseases due to mutations in genes and chromosomes.

  4. Dental says

    March 24, 2011 at 8:30 pm

    yes, smoking is bad for your teeth and your health. Why would anyone do it?

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