Once your primary teeth are gone, you only get one set of teeth for life. One good working set to serve you through countless hours of cutting, mashing, chewing, gnawing and grinding! In this respect, it is vital that you take care of these priceless tools and make sure they remain healthy and strong.
One nasty habit that has a profoundly negative impact on teeth as well as gums is smoking. Smoking primarily affects the respiratory system, mainly your lungs. It also has detrimental affects on other parts of your body.
Smoking causes problems with your dental hygiene status that can get compounded and result in serious oral ill health. Visit your dentist Toronto provider to find out where things stand regarding your current dental status.
Smoking is closely linked with Mouth Cancer, and this alone should be enough to elucidate the harmful effects of smoking on oral health. It also causes gums to become puffy and inflamed. Blood flow to gums reduces as a result and they become weak which in turn makes teeth weak.
Puffing on a cigarette also makes the mouth very dry and greatly reduces the amount of saliva in the mouth. Saliva plays the vital role of cleaning the oral cavity and keeping it healthy. As a result, smoking jeopardises oral health, cleanliness and causes bad breath.
And of course, tobacco stains teeth and causes them to become yellow. The tar in cigarettes gets deposited on the teeth causing them to look stained. This not only looks terrible, it also corrodes the natural protective covering of teeth and weakens them further.
