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Dental Links

• Why the Marlboro Man Is a Fan of Efferdent Every drag takes you a step closer to gumming your way through dinner: cigarettes cause gum disease and subsequent tooth loss.
  
  
• Tobacco and Your Oral Health Articles on smoking and periodontal disease, cigars and oral health, spit tobacco and oral health, sports and spit tobacco.
  
• Tobacco & Nicotine & Dental Health Information and resources on tobacco and dental health from ADA ONLINE, the American Dental Association's Web site.
  
• Cigar and Pipe Smoking are as Dangerous as Cigarettes to Periodontal Health "Pierce Brosnan and Demi Moore have appeared on covers of cigar magazines...What the covers don't show is models with missing teeth." Yet recent research shows that cigars, pipes, and cigarettes all damage periodontal health and cause tooth loss.
  
• Tobacco Use and Periodontal Disease A lesser known effect of tobacco products: tooth and gum disease. With modern dental care, 80% of nonsmokers still have their own teeth at age 65; for smokers, the odds aren't nearly so good. These and other facts from the American Academy of Periodontology.
  
• Tobacco Control - Dental Hygiene Education Dental patient information about tobacco use; instructions for self-examination for mouth cancer; dental professional information about tobacco.
  
• Tobacco Consumption and Periodontal Disease Abstract and review of the literature; table shows odds ratio.
  
• Oral Effects of Tobacco Effects on oral mucosa, gingival and bone damage, damage to teeth local physiology, microbiology, esthetics.
  
• Tobacco Induced and Associated Oral Conditions Covers effects on mouth, teeth, gums, tongue, breath, taste, and smell.
  
• Tobacco and Periodontal Diseases Factsheet; short and to the point.