Smoking and dental problems
Smoking is bad for your dental health. It is not a new discovery, you It is well known fact that smoking bad for lungs and full respiratory system is in turmoil over it. Now understand the fact that your dental health is also affected by smoking. It causes the breath to go foul. Okay, you will chew some extra strong mint to take care of that problem, but that is just cosmetic. The real damage is already done.
Oral cancer is in fact one of the most devastating effects of smoking. In fact, the death rate from oral cancers (which includes cancers of the tongue, mouth, gums, tonsils and pharynx) exceeds the death rate from cervical cancer, according to experts.
Only about 50 percent of people who get oral cancer survive for five years or more, in part because the disease often is not discovered until it is more advanced, according to a study carried in Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology.
Warning signs of dental problem:
- Sticky tar deposits or brown staining on the teeth. Heavy smokers will have almost brown teeth.
- ‘Smoker’s palate’ - red inflammation on the roof of the mouth
- Delayed healing of the gums
- Increased severity of gum disease
- Bad breath or halitosis
- Black hairy tongue
- Oral lesions
- Gum recession - with chewing tobacco at the site of the tobacco "wad", the gums react by receding along the tooth root, exposing the root
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Oral cancer
