Smoking is injurious for health. While this awareness is quite high, especially when it comes to lung and heart health there’s little or no knowledge about how badly it can affect your oral health.

Yes, smoking impacts your gum and teeth health too. And if you thought that vaping has lesser health risks as compared to cigarettes, then you need to read this.

SMOKING IS INJURIOUS FOR HEALTH AND ITS IMPACT YOUR GUM

According to a recent study published in the journal iScience. also, vaping may alter different species of bacteria living in the mouth. However, making the user more prone to gum infections and inflammation.

It also noted that the mouth harbors many microbial species. Also, the microbiome that colonizes our respiratory and digestive tracts. Also, raises the risk of gum disease by fostering an environment conducive for infection-causing bacteria to flourish.

“Given the popularity of vaping, it is critical that we learn more about the effects of e-cigarette aerosols on the oral microbiome and host inflammatory responses in order to better understand the impact of vaping on human health,” said Xin Li, study co-author from New York University (NYU) in the US.

E-CIGARETTE INFLUENCE ON THE ORAL MICROBIOME AND IMMUNE HEALTH

In the study, the researchers also examined e-cigarette vapor and its influence on the oral microbiome and immune health. It also shed some light on how vaping affects the infection efficiency of oral pathogens in cell lines.