Smoking Habits Make Women Menopause Faster Toothless

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Smoking can cause a variety of health problems in both men and women of all age groups. Recent research has even been add to the list losses smoking that postmenopausal women who smoke are at high risk of tooth loss (toothless).

The study was conducted by researchers from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI), which involved 1106 american woman who has been menopause. Smoking has long been associated with tooth loss, but this study focused study in postmenopausal women, which is faster toothless than a man smoking his age.

"Apart from regular habits of brushing teeth and visits to the dentist, postmenopausal women who have the habit of smoking tend to faster lose his teeth than man in the same age," said Xiaodan Mai, one of the researchers. Loss of teeth in older adults is associated with bad health, including because a person have a disease such as stroke, arthritis, cancer, and diabetes.

In the study, participants who included in the category of heavy smokers, namely which spend at least a pack of cigarettes a day during the last 26 years, nearly two times more likely to lose teeth due to periodontal disease compared with women who never smoking.

The study also have been take into account notes the condition of the teeth of participants from a dentist whose results are also significant. "We found that heavy smokers have a much higher likelihood of tooth loss because periodontal disease than women who never smoking. The more a lots of cigarettes smoked, then the risk of periodontal disease, the bigger," said Mai.

Loss of teeth due to periodontal disease is a common condition among postmenopausal women who very have an impact on food intake, aesthetics, and the quality of his life the overall. So that today, women have other reasons a very real to stop smoking.

The study has been published in the Journal of the American Dental Association.