A Journey Since 1899 To 2013 Finding Associations between Tobacco Smoking and Dental Caries

Tobacco smoke exposure and chronic conditions of childhood.

Two remarkable articles by Kwok et al1 and Brion et al2 in this month’s Pediatrics tighten the evidence around tobacco smoke exposure and chronic conditions of childhood. Their work adds to previous research findings that demonstrated associations between tobacco smoke exposure and various childhood morbidities and mortality (Table 1).3 Indeed, 3 important categories of chronic conditions of ch...

Association of Dental Caries, Streptococcus Mutans Counts and Secretory IgA with Tobacco Smoking

This article reviewed smoking oral diseases Cigarette smoke affects the oral cavity first, so it is evident that smoking has many negative influences on oral cavity, for example, dental caries The article also discusses the relationship between smoking, Streptococcus mutans counts, secretory IgA (S-IgA) and dental caries in detail. Dental caries were significantly related to the presence of Str...

Preliminary findings on the correlation of saliva pH, buffering capacity, flow, Consistency and Streptococcus mutans in relation to cigarette smoking.

PURPOSE The purpose of this preliminary study was to examine the relationship of caries risk, salivary buffering capacity, salivary pH, salivary quality (flow, consistency) and levels of Streptococcus mutans in relation to cigarette smoking. METHODS This clinical trial consisted of 53 volunteer patients receiving care in a university based dental hygiene clinic. Participants completed a ques...

Evaluating the associations between serum vitamin D levels and dental caries (ICDAS index) among dental students of Tehran University of Medical Sciences

Tobacco use and caries risk among adolescents – a longitudinal study in Sweden

BACKGROUND Smoking and the use of smokeless tobacco have a detrimental impact on general and oral health. The relationship to dental caries is however still unclear. As caries is a multi-factorial disease with clear life-style, socio-economic and socio-demographic gradients, the tobacco use may be a co-variable in this complex rather than a direct etiological factor. Our aim was to analyze the ...