“How quickly can smoking cause gum disease?”
My younger brother has been smoking for 5 years and he was diagnosed with gum disease last week. How quickly can smoking lead to gum disease?
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Smoking has a direct effect on gum disease. It is not only the length of time but also the amount of cigarettes that the person smokes, also is important how good the patient cleans the bacteria in the mouth since lack of oral hygiene can speed the process of deterioration. It is difficult to state a time frame without knowing the amount of cigarettes, condition of the mouth and oral hygiene practices but certainly smoking is going to affect the overall mouth health an even cause cancer Isabel C. Gay, DDS, MS Clinical Associate Professor Diplomate of the ABP SIU School of Dental Medicine 2800 College Ave., Alton, IL 62002 618-474-7208
Smoking can lead to other health issue beside gum issues. how fast it affects depends on the body's ability to resist the damages
Gum disease and smoking are related but smoking does not cause gum disease. Smoking alters the gum tissue reaction to the bacteria mouth so bleeding is not seen initially. By the time bleeding is seen in the gums, gum disease has progressed into the bone which is a more advanced disease. Hopefully the disease was caught early enough and can be treated by a dentist or a periodontist.
Smoking introduces many toxins which negatively affect the whole body, but the first tissues to be assaulted are the oral tissues and depending on the strength of one's imune system the damage could begin sooner rather than later. The bottom line, don't smoke!
It is already beginning, he might want to consider other alternatives for smoking
It would depend on how much he smokes. If he is smoking 10 or more cigarettes a day, I'd say that that could certainly cause problems in less than 5 years.
Miriam Ting
Periodontist
Smoking puts you at risk for gum disease. Gum disease is a silent disease. Keep regular dental cleaning visits and have your gums checked out
Each year that you smoke makes you more susceptible to Periodontitis
That is subjective. However, within 5 years, you start seeing signs of bone loss and gum disease.
