Tobacco

Today, Grass Valley and Lincoln pediatric dentist Dr. Michelle Kucera wants to give teens the bottom line about tobacco use: there is no such thing as a “safe” or “safer” tobacco product. Every tobacco product contains nicotine in varying amounts—and not only is nicotine addictive, but it can also harm the brain. (Many people don’t […]

E-Cigarettes: An Update On Safety and New Warnings In the winter of 2014, we published an article about e-cigarettes – exploring the risks to users’ oral health.  In case you missed it, you can read it here. At the time we wrote the article, there were several studies underway to determine the safety of e-cigarettes. […]

How Cigarette Smoking Affects Your Oral Health “All my friends have dentures. I’m getting some too!” Sounds silly, doesn’t it? But if teens could see into the future, it’s what they might be saying when they are in their later years. Not very glamorous, is it? The #1 reason teens give for starting to smoke […]

Are E-Cigarettes safer for your oral health than conventional tobacco cigarettes?   Since they arrived on the market in 2007, E-Cigarettes have risen in popularity. The dangers of e-cigarettes to your teeth and gums have only recently come to light. Many smokers, finding themselves ostracized by everyone except other smokers, consider this a viable option. […]

Smokeless Tobacco, also known as Chewing Tobacco, comes in a couple of different forms.  Leaves formed into a brick, or twist, is sold as ‘Chewing Tobacco’.  A finer, ground version is often referred to as ‘Snuff’. What are the many risks of using chewing tobacco? Do you think that because it isn’t lit or inhaled […]