How tobacco can impact your oral health
1 Tobacco Use, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, accessed February 2025
2 How Smoking and Nicotine Damage Your Body, American Heart Association, 2024
3 Smoking, Cleveland Clinic, 2024
4 Secondhand smoke exposure raises the risk of oral cancer by 50%, IPHCA, 2021
5 Ibid
6 Effects of smoking and vaping on oral health, Better Health Channel, 2021
7 Untreated Cavities in Adults Who Smoke, Centers for Disease Control, 2024
8 Ibid
9 Older Adults and Tooth Loss by Smoking Status, Centers for Disease Control, 2024
10 Smoking and Dental Implants: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, National Library of Medicine, 2021
11 Oral Cancer Facts, The Oral Cancer Foundation, 2022
12 World Cancer Day: know the facts – tobacco and alcohol both cause cancer, World Health Organization, 2021