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How Smoking Affects Gums, Teeth and the Mouth's Mucosa Lining
Smoking Affects Gums, Eating and More:In addiction to staining our teeth and making them displeasing to look at, smoking does great harm to the gums that house and protect them.
More and more, we are becoming aware that smoking poses a problem to our general health, all trillion-plus cells in our system, from the lungs to the gums to the heart to the digestive system to the stomachs and any other organ you care to mention.
The principle damage it inflicts in the mouth is to the gums and mucosa, (lining) of the mouth. Smokers develop 5 times more oral cancers than non-smokers and invariably suffer some degree of gum (periodontal) disease.
Immediate Oral Dangers Posed from Smoking:
Smoking stains teeth, even within just a few years. Some of or most of this stain can be removed in the early years, but as time goes on, staining spreads deeper into the enamel and is much more difficult to remove. Eventually, the teeth become permanently stained.
Smokers are 6 times more likely to have gum (periodontal) disease. Periodontal disease is beyond mere gum disease. It involves compromise of the supporting bone and the membrane that actually hold our teeth in place. When the bone becomes compromised, teeth become less stable. They move easily.
Eventually, this condition become painful and the tooth or teeth must be removed.
Periodontal disease is not an inevitable result of smoking, but there is no question that it can mask the presence of the disease, giving it years to progress. By the time the individual notices the extreme damage that has resulted, it is too late.
A single cigarette is so detrimental that even an hour after smoking it, blood pressure in the smoker is 40% lower.
Complicating the problem is that plaque collects at the base of the teeth, where bacteria forms and infects the gums.
Smoking actually inhibits the ability of the body to combat periodonal disease because plaque and smoke combine in a unique way to create a serious condition. This happens even in young people who may not have smoked very long.
Because smoking reduces sensation in the mouth, the pain otherwise caused by periodonal disease in non-smokers goes unnoticed. Wounds heal more slowly, even though the smoker may brush and floss regularly.Nicotine is vaso-constrictive, meaning it constrict tiny blood vessels.
This recudes the flow of blood to the gums. The result is that signs of periodontal disease are masked. Worse, the ability of the body to fight the disease is simultaneously compromised by the act of smoking itself.
More than twice as many smokers lose implants as non-smokers.
Smoking is among the major causes of cancers of the mouth, causing four times more cancer in smokers than non-smokers. This results because smoke causes changes in the mouth that make it easier for the smoker to contract cancer. The mucosa of the mouth becomes a white color and hardens.
No. Sharks and other creatures regrow teeth, but once we have lost ours, they're gone. Quitting smoking and taking care of your teeth through dental hygiene and regular dental visits are usually all most people need to keep their teeth for a lifetime -- as Nature intended.
No single action you can take is more beneficial to your health in general that to quit smoking. The carcinogens resulting from smoking are now implicated in cancer, emphysema, angina, COPD, heart disease and a frightening list of other diseases and problems that can be contracted.
Quitting smoking can also prevent the onset of secondary major diseases and allow us to actually recouperate fully from a major smoking-related disease or problem we're already battling.
An excellent treatment on how to regain your health after years of inflicting damage to it from smoking can be had in the paperback, "The Smoke Stops Here" (www.thesmokestop.com).
Tell-tale Signs of Dental Problems Include:
If any of the following conditions are noticed, you should take immediate action to have your teeth and mouth examined by your dentist and/or medical doctor:
- A change in how partial dentures fit
- A change in how the teeth meet when you bite
- Gums that are pulling away from the teeth
- Gums that bleed when you brush
- Halitosis (bad breath) that doesn't go away
- Loose teeth
- Mouth ulcers
- Red, swollen or tender gums
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