Tobacco has serious negative effects not only for your overall health, but specifically the soft and hard tissues of your mouth.
Both smoking and chewing tobacco have serious risks, including gum disease, poor healing after surgery, receding gums, tooth decay and oral cancer.
SMOKING:
Cigarettes contain chemicals, which are known to cause cancer. As you inhale, the smoke lingers in your mouth before you exhale.
Smoking directly affects your oral health because, it reduces blood flow to your gums, reduces the vitamin C levels needed to keep gums healthy and raises the temperature in the mouth which causes damage to important cells.
SMOKELESS TOBACCO:
Chewing tobacco allows the harmful chemicals and substances to stay in your mouth longer and come into direct contact with your teeth and gums. This causes rapid tooth decay, gum disease, and oral cancer. Smokeless tobacco users are up to 50 times more likely to develop oral cancer, especially in areas where chewing tobacco is held in your mouth.
EFFECTS:
CONCLUSION:
Brushing and flossing can help, but nothing can completely eradicate the negative impact that smoking and chewing has on breath.
Smoking dries out the mouth. Without an adequate level of saliva in the mouth, bacteria does not get rinsed away naturally, thus causing bad breath and oftentimes tooth decay.
"DON'T LET TOBACCO DESTROY YOU, START DESTROYING TOBACCO".