Relationship to Smoking and Dental Health

Why smoking is closely associated with oral health? obviously it can easily be answered, because cigarettes smoked by mouth. By easy we can see a smoker's lips look darker than the lip of a non-smoker, why?

In general, we know that there are cigarettes in Indonesia there are two types, cigarettes with filter and without filter (better known as clove cigarettes). Cigarettes without filters tend to quickly change the color of teeth on a cigarette with a filter.

Now let us follow the trail of cigarette smoke why so many organs "of the body injured. When we inhale cigarette smoke from a cigarette into the oral cavity, a few seconds with millions of cigarette smoke substances" are chemicals in the oral cavity and affects the tissues and organs that are in the oral cavity including the teeth themselves. Hot smoke that blow continuously into the oral cavity is a heat stimuli cause changes in blood flow and reduce expenses saliva. As a result of the oral cavity becomes dry and more an-aerobic (oxygen-free atmosphere) so as to provide a suitable environment for the growth of an-aerobic bacteria in plaque. By itself smokers at greater risk of disease-causing bacteria infected tissues supporting the teeth than those of smokers.

Gums smokers also tend to have thickened stratum corneum. This thickened area which looks more rugged than the surrounding tissue and reduced its malleability.Narrowing of blood vessels caused by nicotine resulted in reduced blood flow in the gums thus increasing the likelihood of the onset of gum disease.

Tar in cigarette smoke also increases the chances of gingivitis, gum disease is most often caused by bacterial plaque and other factors which may cause the accumulation of plaque around the gums. Tar can be deposited on the surface of the tooth and the tooth root so that the surface becomes rough and facilitate the attachment plaque.From the difference research has been carried out plaque and tartar formation of many more in the oral cavity of smokers compared to nonsmokers. Disease is severe tooth supporting tissues, bone destruction and tooth loss tooth advocate more common in smokers than nonsmokers. In the treatment of dental tissue disease patients pendukund smokers require greater care and more. Whereas in patients with non-smokers in the same situation and simply just do standard maintenance such as cleaning of plaque and tartar.

Severity of illness arising from moderate to advanced level directly related to the number of cigarettes smoked each day how long or how many years one becomes a smoker and smoking status itself, is still smoking up to now or have been stopped.

Nicotine plays a role in starting the occurrence of tooth supporting tissue disease because nicotine can be absorbed by the soft tissues of the oral cavity including the gums through the bloodstream and the attachment of gum to the tooth surface and roots. Nicotine can be found on the surface of the tooth root and its metabolites kontinin results can be found in the liquid gum.

Some care is strongly advocated in patients benrhenti smokers to smoke for a while, during the treatment process. As patients in the pemsangan implants.

It can be concluded that losses resulting from cigarette smoking on oral health:

1. Change the color of teeth, gums and lips.

2. Caries in the faster formed.

3. The possibility of cancer in the mouth very large.

4. Clear breath smelled of cigarettes.

5. Changing the network "in the oral cavity that cause various negative impacts on the health of the mouth itself as a trigger caries.