In defining the relationship between tobacco and oral diseases can be identified three different levels. The first is the role of smoking as a risk factor for cancer of the oral cavity, the second involves the relationship between smoking and dental diseases, and the third concerns the effects of smoking on aesthetic issues.
Smoking is a major risk factors for cancers of the oral cavity. This is an issue of major importance: the oral cancer and pharynx is among the most important in humans, occupying the eighth place among the most frequent cancer in the world. This is something that should concern us because it is paradoxical that a tumor that "sees" as precisely what develops in the mouth, not in reality be seen and detected early. One must wonder why this happens.
Another aspect to consider is on developing countries where the tumors are growing and the awareness of the damage smoking is probabihnente child. Among the dental diseases, what is most favored by exposure to cigarette smoke is the parodontopatia.
Smoking is acting negatively on the health of tissues supporting the teeth, and bone, and gum, so much so that according to some studies, up to 50% of its parodontopatie would be attributable to smoking fumo. Il exercise its negative effect also on the results of therapies. For example when you put the words to a treatment plant the role of smoking becomes extremely important as it exposes a larger whistle failure. In particular, it is estimated that the percentage of failure in smokers are around 23%, compared with 13% of non-smokers. Both these aspects, namely the correlation between smoking and disease and parodontale between smoking and implantology, are without any doubt an excellent opportunity for dialogue between workers and dental patients about quitting smoking.
The argument smoke-oral health is very present when you deal with the appearance dental hygiene, that procedure should be performed in all patients at least once every 12 months. This means that, given the role of smoking as a risk factor for disease parodontale, every time a smoker is sitting for a dental hygiene is our job to motivate and encourage the patient to stop smoking.
As the plaque and smoke the two main risk factors would be contradictory to intervene to remove the plate, allowing the patient to continue to smoke in peace. Finally, as regards the relationship between smoking and aesthetic issues, are two key aspects to consider: the pigmentation el halitosis.
Smoking generates pigmentation on teeth and this makes it less effective techniques for bleaching; similarly address the problem halitosis, means improving the aesthetics of breath. In fact the smoker has a breath worse than the non-smoker and one of the tasks in dentistry to address this issue.