{"id":170,"date":"2013-10-10T03:27:10","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T03:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pvcompletedentistry.com\/blog\/?p=170"},"modified":"2017-05-10T16:58:58","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T16:58:58","slug":"oral-health-reasons-quit-smoking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pvcompletedentistry.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/oral-health-reasons-quit-smoking\/","title":{"rendered":"Oral Health Reasons Why You Should Quit Smoking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-449 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pvcompletedentistry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/iStock-505525860-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pvcompletedentistry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/iStock-505525860-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pvcompletedentistry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/iStock-505525860-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pvcompletedentistry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/iStock-505525860-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.pvcompletedentistry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/iStock-505525860.jpg 1256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The reasons to quit smoking are nearly to numerable to mention. \u00a0The American Heart Association says that smoking is the number one preventable cause of death in America. \u00a0Smoking causes nearly 20% of the deaths in this country and nearly all lung cancers are caused by smoking. \u00a0Smokers live on average 13 years less than non smokers. \u00a0This is only the mortality related bad news associated with smoking. \u00a0Systemic and local problems arise from smoking that may indirectly or directly lead to disease or death. \u00a0The good news is that the percentage of Americans that smoke has been on the decline now for over 15 years. \u00a0The AHA also says that since 1965, nearly 45% of adults that smoked have quit. \u00a0You could be one of the many that have been successful in this venture and see the incredible health benefits of doing so.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What are the oral health implications to smoking?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is important to note that numerous studies have shown that smoking is a direct causation to disease. \u00a0These studies have been created strategically to isolate certain demographics to remove other social or socio-economic factors from the results. \u00a0In 1991 Bergstrom and Eliasson performed a study on dental hygienists who smoked and those that did not. \u00a0The idea behind this was that hygienists would be the ones who are the most knowledgeable and most likely the segment of the population that would practice the best oral hygiene. What they found was a direct correlation between smoking and alveolar bone loss.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Haber and Wattles in 1993 performed a study where they found that the odds ratio for periodontal (gum) disease was nine times higher in smokers than in non smokers. \u00a0They also found a significant increase in periodontal disease (14 times) in heavy smokers vs. non smokers. \u00a0Several studies have been done to determine that smoking also increases recovery time and recovery success in dental surgeries, many of which were caused either directly or directly by smoking. \u00a0Dental implants is another section of dental therapy that is adversely affected by smoking. \u00a0Bain and Moy in 1993 studied over 2100 dental implants between smokers and non smokers. \u00a0The implant failures were nearly double in smokers over non smokers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Smoking will yellow teeth, cause bad breath and have negative social implications that can have a broad range. \u00a0There are over 4000 chemicals found in cigarettes with over 200 shown to have adverse effects on our health. \u00a0Many of these chemicals are proven mutagens and some are proven carcinogens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The American Heart Association has resources to help you quit.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reasons to quit smoking are nearly to numerable to mention. \u00a0The American Heart Association says that smoking is the number one preventable cause of death in America. \u00a0Smoking causes nearly 20% of the deaths in this country and nearly all lung cancers are caused by smoking. \u00a0Smokers live on average 13 years less than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-dentistry","tag-oral-health"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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