Gum Recession Is Prevented With Smoking

Today, there are more and more people smoking throughout the world. Youngsters, women and men alike smoke although they know smoking is bad for health. Though smoking and tobacco are considered to be bad for health, surprisingly, research has proven that there are some good sides to smoking.

Smoking is usually associated with gum recession; on the contrary, it has been found and proven through research that gum recession is prevented with smoking. Let it be known that smokers are no more at a risk of developing receding gums than non-smokers are.

Some researchers at Heidelberg, Koblenz and Munster of Germany have unearthed data to prove that smokers are not at all at a risk of suffering from gum recession. These researchers noted, and do know that smoking is a great risk factor for destructive periodontal disease.

However they point out the fact that though smoking can aggravate periodontal disease, there is not much proof or information on how smoking actually affected people this way. So to prove and test the development of gingival recession, these researchers had conducted four tests over a period of six months.

Their tests were conducted in clinical periodontal conditions using the help of 61 healthy volunteers in the age group of 19 - 30 years. Out of these 61 volunteers, 30 of them smoked a minimum of 20 cigarettes in a day while the other 31 volunteers did not smoke cigarettes at all.

Let it be noted that both these groups of volunteers originally had receding gums at one or more places at the start of the experiment. Ironically, it was found that there was severe gum recession of more than 2 millimeters in a majority of non-smokers than smokers. In fact, about 23 percent of the non-smokers experienced this increase in gum recession when compared to the 7 percent of smokers.

After the study, it was found that there was more of gum recession in both the groups of volunteers. So on the conclusion of this test; it was proven that the risk of gum recession was not at all influenced by smoking. The statistics of this test provided more than enough proof for this statement.

It was after statistical adjustments about different factors like periodontal probing depth, recession at baseline, the sex of the candidate, their tooth type, the place where there was gum recession and the frequency of their brushing of teeth that it was proven that smoking can prevent gum recession.

It is the other factors associated with oral hygiene and the individual themselves that actually induce gum recession in the candidate.

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